Text Encodings

This provides various ways for encoding/decoding text: binary, hexadecimal, Baudot code and its subsequent encoding systems. The Baudot code was used extensively in telegraph systems. It is a five bit code invented by the frenchman Emile Baudot in 1870. Using five bits allowed 32 different characters. To accomodate all the letters of the alphabet and numerals, two of the 32 combinations were used to select alternate character sets. As you can see, it only allows for a real basic character set-no lower case etc... Each character is preceeded by a start bit, and followed by a stop bit, not shown here. Two 'Baudot codes' are in common usage in the computer industry. The first as used in America. The second, used in Europe, is also termed the CCITT Alphabet No. 2.

Space encodings

Your message:

This is your encoded or decoded text:

For reference, here is the Baudot table:

Binary Decimal Hexadecimal Octal Baudot U.S. CCITT No.2 Figure
00000 0 00 00 Blank Blank N/A N/A N/A
00001 1 01 01 T 5 E 3 3
00010 2 02 02 CR CR LF LF LF
00011 3 03 03 O 9 A - -
00100 4 04 04 Space Space Space Space Space
00101 5 05 05 H S BELL '
00110 6 06 06 N , I 8 8
00111 7 07 07 M . U 7 7
01000 8 08 10 Line Feed Line Feed CR CR CR
01001 9 09 11 L ) D $ WRU
01010 10 0A 12 R 4 R 4 4
01011 11 0B 13 G & J ' Bell
01100 12 0C 14 I 8 N , ,
01101 13 0D 15 P 0 F ! !
01110 14 0E 16 C : C : :
01111 15 0F 17 V ; K ( (
10000 16 10 20 E 3 T 5 5
10001 17 11 21 Z " Z " +
10010 18 12 22 D $ L ) )
10011 19 13 23 B ? W 2 2
10100 20 14 24 S BEL H # £
10101 21 15 25 Y 6 Y 6 6
10110 22 16 26 F ! P 0 0
10111 23 17 27 X / Q 1 1
11000 24 18 30 A - O 9 9
11001 25 19 31 W 2 B ? ?
11010 26 1A 32 J ' G & &
11011 27 1B 33 Figure Shift Figure Shift Figure Shift Figure Shift
11100 28 1C 34 U 7 M . .
11101 29 1D 35 Q 1 X / /
11110 30 1E 36 K ( V ; =
11111 31 1F 37 Letter Shift Letter Shift Letter Shift Letter Shift