ASCII

ASCII text characters data
File type: Text file
Files with ascii extension can be found as text files in ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) text characters file format.
What is ascii file?
File type category:
Text file
Date updated: December 31, 2024
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.
How to open ascii file?
You can open .ascii files in all text editors.
How to convert ascii file?
As any other text files, .ascii files can be re-saved or converted to other text files.
Suggested software to open ascii file:
Associated software actions with the ascii file
Software applications that can open ascii files:
Sublime Text (Microsoft Windows)
Microsoft Windows NotePad (Microsoft Windows)
NotePad++ text editor (Microsoft Windows)
GetDiz (Microsoft Windows)
DAMN NFO Viewer (Microsoft Windows)
PSPad (Microsoft Windows)
Sublime Text for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
Sublime Text for Linux (Linux/Unix)
gedit (Linux/Unix)
PabloDraw (Multiplatform)
Software applications that can edit ascii files:
Sublime Text (Microsoft Windows)
Microsoft Windows NotePad (Microsoft Windows)
NotePad++ text editor (Microsoft Windows)
GetDiz (Microsoft Windows)
DAMN NFO Viewer (Microsoft Windows)
PSPad (Microsoft Windows)
Sublime Text for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
Sublime Text for Linux (Linux/Unix)
gedit (Linux/Unix)
PabloDraw (Multiplatform)
Software capable of saving ascii files:
Sublime Text (Microsoft Windows)
Microsoft Windows NotePad (Microsoft Windows)
NotePad++ text editor (Microsoft Windows)
GetDiz (Microsoft Windows)
DAMN NFO Viewer (Microsoft Windows)
PSPad (Microsoft Windows)
Sublime Text for Mac (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
Sublime Text for Linux (Linux/Unix)
gedit (Linux/Unix)
Programs for viewing ascii files:
gedit (Linux/Unix)
Software apps that create ascii files:
GetDiz (Microsoft Windows)
DAMN NFO Viewer (Microsoft Windows)
Software apps that convert ascii files:
ABC Amber Text Converter (Microsoft Windows)
Software apps that import ascii files:
Resort Recipe (Microsoft Windows)
ArtWonk (Microsoft Windows)
Abscissa (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
PabloDraw (Multiplatform)
ASCII Art Paint (On-line services)
Software apps that export ascii files:
jp2a (Microsoft Windows)
Accent Duo 2.0 (Microsoft Windows)
Abscissa (Apple macOS / Mac OS X)
ASCII Art Paint (On-line services)
onlineasciitools (On-line services)
Software apps that print ascii files:
Microsoft Windows NotePad (Microsoft Windows)
NotePad++ text editor (Microsoft Windows)
gedit (Linux/Unix)