The '''[http://www.ansi.org%|%American National Standards Institute]''' is a private organisation that collaborates with government and non-government entities to create technical standards. ** ASCII ** One example that many programmers will have encountered is the [ASCII] character set, which was a huge improvement over the vast number of different manufacturer encodings in use beforehand (of which only [IBM]'s [EBCDIC] has survived in any meaningful way). Also significant because, [terminal control sequence%|%ANSI escape codes] are used to control text formatting and other output options on text terminals. ** C ** '''ANSI C''' or '''ISO C''' or '''Standard C''', refers to the [C] language specifications the superseded the original '''K&R C'''. ** See Also ** [Terminal]: <> Glossary