How do you say daddy in binary code?

Answer 1

It depends on the encoding but if we assume standard ASCII encodings, the representation is the same for all systems, the only difference being the number of leading 0 bits per character.

7-bit ASCII (ISO/IEC 646):

1100100 1100001 1100100 1100100 1111001 0000000

8-bit ASCII (ISO/IEC 8859, Windows-1252 and UTF8):

01100100 01100001 01100100 01100100 01111001 00000000

UTF16:

00000000 01100100 00000000 01100001 00000000 01100100

00000000 01100100 00000000 01111001 00000000 00000000

To perform these conversions, convert each character to its ASCII representation (in decimal):

d = 100

a = 97

d = 100

d = 100

y = 121

For completeness, we should also include the null-terminator, character code 0.

null = 0

Now convert each decimal value to its 8-bit representation in hexadecimal:

100 = 0x64

97 = 0x61

100 = 0x64

100 = 0x64

121 = 0x79

0 = 0x00

Convert each hexadecimal digit to its 4-bit binary representation:

0x6 = 0110

0x4 = 0100

0x6 = 0110

0x1 = 0001

0x6 = 0110

0x4 = 0100

0x6 = 0110

0x4 = 0100

0x7 = 0111

0x9 = 1001

0x0 = 0000

0x0 = 0000

Place the binary codes in sequence.

"daddy" = 01100100 01100001 01100100 01100100 01111001 00000000

Finally, add or remove leading zero bits to suit the actual encoding.

Answer 2

There is not just one "binary code"; there are different ways to encode characters. So, the answer might depend on whether you use ASCII, EBCDIC, UTF-8, etc.