Tomorrow (today) is looking quite interesting.
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Computer fag here.
Binary simply means the 1's and 0's ALL computers use to communicate. Ergo, there is a string of 1s and 0s for each letter making up each word you are reading.
ASCII is a reserved string of codes within the binary language that computers identify for specific characters that cannot be changed.
Hope that helps.
No, unfortunately it doesn't help. I am a software developer, so I'm not ignorant about what binary is, in fact in school I got pretty good at doing arithmetic in binary and hexadecimal (even octal); my question isn't what binary is, it's what is this "Binary to Text" thing these people are talking about as though it's different than literally just taking a binary string and interpreting it as ASCII. These people are saying that "Binary to Text" is different than ASCII, which makes me think they're referring to some particular encoding scheme, but really it just seems to be that they don't really know what ASCII UTF-8 is.
Ah, I see, fellow computers fag!!
I also see your question better. So, AFAIK, it's a non computer fag way of explaining something they know how, for lack of understanding. Not a big deal. Been on computers; building and programming since 1981. There is no text to binary, or vice versa. I believe they meant what I said in my first reply to you.
I thought it was some wonky thing like BCD, Binary Coded Decimal, but yes, I am seeing they're just talking about the same thing in a general and a particular way simultaneously as though they're two different things.