ASCII

ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) is a character encoding standard that represents text in computers and other devices using a set of 128 numeric codes to represent characters such as letters, numbers, and symbols.

To create an ASCII view of a folder structure use the following ASCII codes to insert the symbols. Hold the alt key down whilst entering the ASCII code number.

ASCII codeOutput
alt-196
alt-196
my-app/
├─ node_modules/
├─ public/
│  ├─ favicon.ico
│  ├─ index.html
│  ├─ robots.txt
├─ src/
│  ├─ index.css
│  ├─ index.js
├─ .gitignore
├─ package.json
├─ README.md

References

Insert ASCII or Unicode Latin-based symbols and characters

Full list of ASCII characters, letters, symbols and signs with descriptions

Last modified July 21, 2024: update (e2ae86c)