I suspect the OP meant "ASCII" in the common (but granted pedantically incorrect) sense of "one or more of the various code pages that use X'20' for space, X'41' for A, X'30' for zero, and so forth, or a variant thereof." Given that meaning, round trip is eminently possible.
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