Cosmo said:
I occasionally get messages in ASCII code. Is there any way I can convert
this stuff into English? What good is a message if you can't read it?
ASCII code is a standard symbol set (American Standard Code for
Information Interchange, one of the more common) used to represent
characters (like letters) in a computer. Letters make up words, which in
turn, if composed in a certain manner, makes English. In short, ASCII is
not the problem.
What do the messages look like? Are they numbers or seemingly jumbled
characters?
Most likely you are getting a message wich is encrypted (not just
encoded), or it is encoded in a different character set, and your
messaging client (mail or IM software?) interprets it as plain ASCII (or
some other, non compatible character set).
