Let's have a simple one-character string 'š' and encode it into a sequence of bytes:

>>> 'š'.encode('utf-8') b'\xc5\xa1' 

For the purpose of this example, let's display the sequence of bytes in its binary form:

>>> bin(int(b'\xc5\xa1'.hex(), 16)) '0b1100010110100001' 

Now it is generally not possible to decode the information back without knowing how it was encoded. Only if you know that the UTF-8 text encoding was used, you can follow the algorithm for decoding UTF-8 and acquire the original string:

11000101 10100001 ^^^^^ ^^^^^^ 00101 100001 

You can display the binary number 101100001 back as a string:

>>> chr(int('101100001', 2)) 'š' 

Let's have a simple one-character string 'š' and encode it into a sequence of bytes:

>>> 'š'.encode('utf-8') b'\xc5\xa1' 

For the purpose of this example, let's display the sequence of bytes in its binary form:

>>> bin(int(b'\xc5\xa1'.hex(), 16)) '0b1100010110100001' 

Now it is generally not possible to decode the information back without knowing how it was encoded. Only if you know that the UTF-8 text encoding was used, you can follow the algorithm for decoding UTF-8 and acquire the original string:

11000101 10100001 ^^^^^ ^^^^^^ 00101 100001 

You can display the binary number 101100001 back as a string:

>>> chr(int('101100001', 2)) 'š' 

Let's have a simple one-character string 'š' and encode it into a sequence of bytes:

>>> 'š'.encode('utf-8') b'\xc5\xa1' 

For the purpose of this example let's display the sequence of bytes in its binary form:

>>> bin(int(b'\xc5\xa1'.hex(), 16)) '0b1100010110100001' 

Now it is generally not possible to decode the information back without knowing how it was encoded. Only if you know that the utf-8 text encoding was used, you can follow the algorithm for decoding utf-8 and acquire the original string:

11000101 10100001 ^^^^^ ^^^^^^ 00101 100001 

You can display the binary number 101100001 back as a string:

>>> chr(int('101100001', 2)) 'š' 

Let's have a simple one-character string 'š' and encode it into a sequence of bytes:

>>> 'š'.encode('utf-8') b'\xc5\xa1' 

For the purpose of this example, let's display the sequence of bytes in its binary form:

>>> bin(int(b'\xc5\xa1'.hex(), 16)) '0b1100010110100001' 

Now it is generally not possible to decode the information back without knowing how it was encoded. Only if you know that the UTF-8 text encoding was used, you can follow the algorithm for decoding UTF-8 and acquire the original string:

11000101 10100001 ^^^^^ ^^^^^^ 00101 100001 

You can display the binary number 101100001 back as a string:

>>> chr(int('101100001', 2)) 'š'