ANSI and Unicode

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Could someone tell me what the difference is between ANSI and Unicode please?

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Well ANSI is the American National Standards Institute and Unicode is a character encoding system.

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Or did you mean ASCII ? Laughing out loud

Which is a character encoding system that only allows for 127 chars (255 if using the Extended ASCII set.
Unicode allows for every character in any language to have a unique identifying number.

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BTW ASCII means American Standard Code for Information Interchange...

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thanks guys

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