ANSI

ANSI is an acronym for American National Standards Institute. ANSI is a private, non-profit organization that coordinates the development and maintenance of technical standards in the United States. The organization works with other standards development organizations to develop and promote standards for a wide range of industries, including information technology, telecommunications, energy, and many others. ANSI is best known for its role in the development of character encoding standards, such as the ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) standard, which defines a set of 128 characters and symbols used to represent text in computer systems.