Why are there more hex bytes than characters?

UTF-8 uses one byte for ASCII and up to four for other characters, so anything outside ASCII produces more bytes than it has characters.

Hex Encoder / Decoder

Convert between text and hexadecimal byte sequences.

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Converts between text and hexadecimal byte values in either direction, with a choice of separator. Useful for reading binary protocol dumps and for embedding byte sequences in source code.

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Why are there more hex bytes than characters?: UTF-8 uses one byte for ASCII and up to four for other characters, so anything outside ASCII produces more bytes than it has characters.

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