ANSI

ANSI - American National Standards Institute

An American body responsible for the standardisation system since 1918.

ANSI establishes the United States industrial standards and it's primary task is to determine hardware and software standards.

One example of the work of ANSI, is the ANSI character code standard, which extended the ASCII character code standard to include non-English letters, such as those used in the Spanish alphabet.

It is also the US representative to ISO (International Organization for Standardization) and ICE (International Electrotechnical Commission).

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