Bytes to String

Category: Data Conversion & Encoding · Node Type ID: converter-bytes-to-string

Decodes byte array into human-readable text string (UTF-8, ASCII, Latin-1)

Overview

Decodes a raw byte array (Uint8Array) into a human-readable text string using the selected character encoding (utf-8, ascii, or latin1 / ISO-8859-1).

This node never raises a decoding error on arbitrary bytes: invalid UTF-8 sequences are replaced with the standard replacement character, and latin1 maps every byte 0x00..0xFF directly to its Unicode code point.

When to Use

Converting decrypted plaintext bytes back into a readable UTF-8 or ASCII string for inspection or downstream string processing.
Inspecting raw protocol frames or headers as Latin-1 text without losing single-byte correspondence.

Parameter Configuration

Parameter (ID)	Type & Default	Visibility Condition	Description & Options
Character Encoding `encoding`	`select` Default: `utf-8`	Always visible	Character set used to interpret the input bytes: `utf-8` (multi-byte Unicode standard), `ascii` (7-bit ASCII), or `latin1` (ISO-8859-1 single-byte mapping). `utf-8`: UTF-8 (Standard) `ascii`: ASCII (7-bit) `latin1`: Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1)

Port I/O Specification

See Ports & Connections for general wiring rules, data type colors, and dynamic port creation.

Input Ports

Port Nature: Fixed Input Ports (1 total).

Port Name	Port ID	Data Type	Required	Visibility Condition	Description
`Bytes In`	`bytes`	`Bytes`	Required	Always visible	Raw byte array (`Uint8Array`) to decode.

Output Ports

Port Nature: Fixed Output Ports (1 total).

Port Name	Port ID	Data Type	Visibility Condition	Description
`String Out`	`string`	`String`	Always visible	Decoded text string.

Error Cases

This node has no runtime failure cases (errorProfile: none) and always succeeds for any valid typed input.

Examples

Converting Decrypted Plaintext Bytes into UTF-8 Text

Read the decrypted output of AES Decrypt as a string.

Connect the Plaintext output of AES Decrypt to Bytes to String with Character Encoding set to UTF-8 (Standard).
Connect the Text output port to an Output Inspector.