🔤 Text ↔ Hex Converter

Encode text as UTF-8 hex bytes or decode hex bytes back to readable text.

Quick Examples

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is hex conversion useful for debugging encoding?

The word "hello" in UTF-8 is 68 65 6C 6C 6F in hex. Comparing hex representations lets you pinpoint encoding mismatches exactly.

How many bytes does a single character take in UTF-8?

ASCII characters (a–z, 0–9) take 1 byte. Most European characters take 2 bytes. Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters typically take 3 bytes.