What is ASCII Converter?
ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a 7-bit character encoding standard that assigns numeric values 0–127 to characters: letters, digits, punctuation, and control codes. The letter "A" is 65, "a" is 97, the digit "0" is 48, and the space character is 32. ASCII was defined in 1963 and remains the foundation of most modern character encodings — UTF-8 is fully backward-compatible with ASCII for the first 128 code points. Converting text to ASCII codes is used in programming education, debugging character encoding issues, transmitting text over systems that only support numeric data, and analyzing control characters that don't have a visible representation.