ASCII to Text Converter
ASCII to Text Converter
About the Tool
The ASCII to Text Converter tool translates ASCII code values into their corresponding text characters. ASCII, or American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard used in electronic communication.
What is ASCII?
ASCII includes 128 characters, comprising 33 non-printable control characters and 95 printable characters, including the English alphabet (uppercase and lowercase), digits, punctuation marks, and a few miscellaneous symbols.
Conversion Process
The conversion process involves taking numeric ASCII codes and translating them back into their character representations. For example:
- ASCII code 65 corresponds to the uppercase letter 'A'.
- ASCII code 66 corresponds to 'B'.
- ASCII code 97 corresponds to the lowercase letter 'a'.
- ASCII code 98 corresponds to 'b'.
Use Cases
This tool is beneficial in computing and data communication contexts where messages encoded in ASCII numeric form need to be converted to human-readable text. It is also useful for educational purposes, debugging, and decoding messages stored or transmitted as ASCII codes.