enter unicode text, dollcode, or a series of utf-8 octets (ex. 68 69 21 20 3a 33, with or without spaces)
generated dollcode is a series of encoded bytes as opposed to a single encoded hex number
dollcode is a ternary number, with ▖, ▘, and ▌ denoting 1, 2, and 3 respectively, with the most significant bit on the left side.
counting 1 to 16 we get ▖, ▘, ▌, ▖▖, ▖▘, ▖▌, ▘▖, ▘▘, ▘▌, ▌▖, ▌▘, ▌▌, ▖▖▖, ▖▖▘, ▖▖▌, ▖▘▖
see here for an explanation of how the text encoding works