ASCII Converter

Convert text to ASCII codes and back. Useful for programming and data encoding.

Input / Output

Text

DEC Decimal (ASCII Codes)

Encoded

HEX Hexadecimal

BIN Binary

Overview

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a character encoding standard that assigns numeric values to letters, numbers, and symbols. Each character has a unique code from 0-127. ASCII converters help programmers, developers, and anyone working with text encoding.

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Pro Tips

Standard ASCII only includes 128 characters (0-127).
Extended ASCII uses codes 128-255 for additional characters.
Use ASCII for basic text; UTF-8 for international characters.
Remember that space is ASCII 32, 'A' is 65, 'a' is 97.

Fun Facts

"ASCII was first published in 1963 by the American Standards Association."
"The DEL character (127) was originally used to mark punched tape holes."
"ASCII code 7 is BEL (bell), which originally rang actual bells."
"Modern Unicode is backward compatible with ASCII for the first 128 characters."

Formula: Each character = ASCII code (0-127)

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