Paste Unicode text and get plain 7-bit ASCII back: accents are folded (café becomes cafe), smart quotes and dashes are straightened, and emoji and other non-ASCII symbols are removed. Ideal for terminals, code and older systems.
Accented letters are transliterated to their base ASCII form, so é becomes e and ñ becomes n.
Smart quotes, en and em dashes and the ellipsis are replaced by their plain ASCII equivalents.
Anything still outside the ASCII range, like emoji, symbols or Greek letters, is dropped, leaving pure ASCII.
Download this exact setup as a ready-made Plain ASCII profile. Give it a global hotkey in the Windows app and any text you copy is reduced to plain ASCII the instant you paste. Same engine as above, entirely offline.
Paste the text above and it is reduced to plain ASCII instantly: accents folded, quotes straightened and non-ASCII symbols removed. Copy the result, or save it as a profile for the Windows app.
ASCII is the original 7-bit character set of 128 characters: the unaccented English letters, digits, common punctuation and control codes. Plain ASCII text uses only those characters, which every system can display.
Some terminals, log files, legacy databases and code identifiers only handle ASCII reliably. Converting first avoids garbled characters, broken imports and encoding errors.
Only need accents gone? Try remove accents.
Remove Special Characters