ASCII/UTF-8 Export (Org Mode Compact Guide)

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### 12.6 ASCII/UTF-8 Export

ASCII export produces an output file containing only plain ASCII characters. This is the simplest and most direct text output. It does not contain any Org markup. UTF-8 export uses additional characters and symbols available in this encoding standards.

`C-c C-e t a`
`C-c C-e t u`

  Export as an ASCII file with a ‘`.txt`’ extension. For ‘`myfile.org`’, Org exports to ‘`myfile.txt`’, overwriting without warning. For ‘`myfile.txt`’, Org exports to ‘`myfile.txt.txt`’ in order to prevent data loss.