Found 1 record for the .ASCII file extension name

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file extension ASCII - ASCII text characters file

File type specification:

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Extension icon: ascii file icon.ASCII

File extension ASCII description:

American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) is a character-encoding scheme based on the ordering of the English alphabet. ASCII codes represent text in computers, communications equipment, and other devices that work with text. Most modern character-encoding schemes which support many more characters than did the original have a historical basis in ASCII.

Historically, ASCII developed from telegraphic codes. Its first commercial use was as a seven-bit teleprinter code promoted by Bell data services. Work on ASCII formally began October 6, 1960, with the first meeting of the American Standards Association's (ASA) X3.2 subcommittee. The first edition of the standard was published in 1963, a major revision in 1967, and the most recent update in 1986. Compared to earlier telegraph codes, the proposed Bell code and ASCII were both ordered for more convenient sorting (i.e., alphabetization) of lists, and added features for devices other than teleprinters.

ASCII includes definitions for 128 characters: 33 are non-printing control characters (now mostly obsolete) that affect how text is processed; 94 are printable characters, and the space is considered an invisible graphic. The most commonly used character encoding on the World Wide Web was US-ASCII until 2008, when it was surpassed by UTF-8.

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Help how to open ASCII files:

To use/open/view the file, try to use suggested associated applications (if available). If not, try to use any plain text editor like Notepad under Windows, TextEdit under MAC OS X, or some of more advanced simple text or source code editors like Notepad++, PSPad, Programmer's Notepad, UltraEdit that are capable to view and correctly read text files also writed at different platforms (Windows, MAC or UNIX format) and character sets (UTF-8, ANSI, Windows charsets, Cyrillique, Arabic and other foreign languages text encoding charsets etc.) and also with additional source code formatting capabilities.

How to convert file with extension ASCII:

If your opened file type is simple text file, you don't need to converting it. You can rename file extension to .txt or text file extension you currently need for your associated program or project. There can be sometimes problems with right character encoding recognition and determining of used charset for text in the file and consequently converting into character set you want. Look for some text encoding converter software if your text editor can't convert text into code charset you need.

If your file is not simple text file (viewed text is corrupted, contains unknown symbols, special characters or binary code), you will need to find native text editor or word processing program for this file type or similar program capable to import this text file format. Try to do some internet search for the right application for this file type.

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