ANSI character code
The ANSI character code is an extension of the ASCII code, with the change from 7 bits per character to 8 bits per character. ANSI is short for American National Standards Institute . The character codes (ASCII, ANSI, Unicode ) were introduced when computer users could or wanted to communicate over the Internet or over various networks. Before that, the character codes were different for each computer model. Strictly speaking, the term ANSI character code has to be seen historically, since the Windows code page 1252 was based on an ANSI draft that later largely became the ISO standard 8859-1 . However, the character sets are not congruent, which is why the term ANSI code for Windows-1252 (Latin-1, Western European) is retained by Windows users and in corresponding literature or magazines. Many well-known special characters are contained in the so-called ANSI code. The ANSI code consists of 256 different characters.
Individual evidence
- ↑ ANSI code at ascii-table.com (en), accessed on December 10, 2016
- ↑ ANSI special characters according to CHIP (de), accessed on December 10, 2016