It supersedes 'ASCII' and actually contains all the ASCII symbols within it's specification. Unicode is an international standard for symbols in computer-related industries. This translator is essentially generating unicode symbols which resemble letters from the latin alphabet (a, b, c. You'd be forgiven for thinking that this translator converts text into a number of different fonts - that's not what's happening here. If you'd like your text to be randomly translated into different symbol (character by character), check out my other translator called ' fancy text'. It converts text into several symbol sets which are listed in the second text area, and the conversion is done in real-time and in your browser using JavaScript. This is a simple online tool that converts regular text into text symbols which resemble the normal alphabet letters.