There is a lot of other benefits to it and if you deal with computers you will know how important it is to convert from native to ASCII. ASCII is a character-encoding scheme which is based on the ordering of the English alphabet. This is what you really need your text to be in and this software allows you to do that.
Native-to-ASCII Converter Form
Enables users to convert a file with native-encoded characters (characters which are non-Latin 1 and non-Unicode) to one with Unicode-encoded characters. Just select your files and click on the "Convert" button.