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Base64, URLs and HTML entities.

Almost everything in this category is the same problem wearing different clothes: a character that means one thing to you and something structural to whatever is reading it. An ampersand separates query parameters, an angle bracket opens a tag, a plus sign is a space in a submitted form. Encoding is how you say "this one is data" — and the reason there is more than one scheme is that each reader draws the line in a different place. The tools here are deliberately explicit about which reader they are writing for, because encoding correctly for the wrong context is the same as not encoding at all. All of them convert as you type and none of them sends what you paste anywhere.

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Every tool in this category runs entirely in your browser: there is no upload, no account and no request to a server once the page has loaded. The numbers behind them are transcribed from the organisation that defines them — NIST for units, the W3C for web formats, the WHO for health measures — and each page names its source next to the formula. A tool whose reference values stop reproducing fails the build and does not ship, which is the whole reason the catalogue grows slowly.

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