Files with ascii extension can be found as text files in ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) text characters file format.

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ASCII file extension - ASCII text characters data

What is ascii file? How to open ascii files?

File type specification:

Text file type icon Text file type

File extension ascii is used for a specific type of text files. 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.

The ascii files are compatible with various text editors.

Updated: November 29, 2023

The default software associated to open ascii file:

Sublime Text icon

Sublime Text  Microsoft Windows software

Company or developer:
Sublime HQ Pty Ltd

Sublime Text is advanced text editor used to write source codes in various programming languages. It is a great tool for programmers and offers great feature and performance. It is available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux operating systems.

NotePad++ text editor icon

Notepad++ Team logoNotePad++ text editor  Microsoft Windows software

Company or developer:
Notepad++ Team

A very popular free text and source code editor. It supports syntax highlighting and syntax folding for C, C++, HTML, ASP, Java, Pascal, PHP, Cobol, CSS etc. Notepad++ also supports plugins to add new features. It is localized to many languages.

Sublime Text for Mac icon

Sublime Text for Mac  Apple macOS / Mac OS X software

Company or developer:
Sublime HQ Pty Ltd

Sublime Text is advanced text editor and source code editor that allows users to write source codes in various programming languages. It is available for Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux operating systems.

Sublime Text for Linux icon

Sublime Text for Linux  Linux/Unix software

Company or developer:
Sublime HQ Pty Ltd

Sublime Text is advanced text editor with source code highlighting that allows users to write source codes in various programming languages. It is available for Linux and other platforms.

Help how to open:

You can open .ascii files in all text editors.

How to convert:

As any other text files, .ascii files can be re-saved or converted to other text files.

Find conversions from ascii file:

ascii to doc

ascii to gpx

ascii to jpeg

ascii to jpg

ascii to obj

ascii to pdf

ascii to png

Find converter to ascii file type:

ansi to ascii

asc to ascii

gif to ascii

midi to ascii

rtf to ascii

txt to ascii

xls to ascii

List of software applications associated to the .ascii file extension

Recommended software programs are sorted by OS platform (Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS, Android etc.)
and possible program actions that can be done with the file: like open ascii file, edit ascii file, convert ascii file, view ascii file, play ascii file etc. (if exist software for corresponding action in File-Extensions.org's database).

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Click on the tab below to simply browse between the application actions, to quickly get a list of recommended software, which is able to perform the specified software action, such as opening, editing or converting ascii files.

Software that open ascii file - ASCII text characters data

Programs supporting the exension ascii on the main platforms Windows, Mac, Linux or mobile. Click on the link to get more information about listed programs for open ascii file action.

Microsoft Windows:

Main software associated with ascii file by default:
Sublime Text small icon Sublime Text
NotePad++ text editor small icon NotePad++ text editor
Other suggested software:
Microsoft Windows NotePad small icon Microsoft Windows NotePad
DAMN NFO Viewer
GetDiz small icon GetDiz
PSPad small icon PSPad

Apple macOS / Mac OS X:

Linux/Unix:

Main software associated with ascii file by default:
Sublime Text for Linux small icon Sublime Text for Linux
Other suggested software:
gedit small icon gedit

Multiplatform:

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