ASCII text
Basic digital lettering
ASCII text is plain, unformatted text using only the 128 characters of the American Standard Code for Information Interchange—basic letters, numbers, punctuation, and control characters.
It contains no styling, fonts, or special formatting: Save it as ASCII text so any program can read it.
The term distinguishes simple text files from rich text or binary formats.
- carriage returnCursor-to-margin command
- Morse codeDot-dash signaling system
- readme fileSoftware orientation document
- source codeProgramming instructions before compilation
- teletypeElectric text transmitter
data encoding format
ASCII textbinary data
Information as ones and zeros
binary file · UTF-8 · emoji · hexadecimal
content type
ASCII textbinary data
Information as ones and zeros
binary file · audio file · video file · machine code · executable
text, texts, textual, textually, textile, textiles, texture, textures, textured