The '''[http://www.ansi.org%|%American National Standards Institute]''' is a private organisation that collaborates with government and non-government agencies 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.



** See Also **

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