How does ANSI work?
In technical terms, ANSI is a coding scheme, which assigns numeric values to letters, numbers, punctuation marks, and certain other characters. By standardizing the values used for these characters, ANSI enables computers and computer programs to exchange information regardless of platform. There are 256 standard ANSI codes, each of which can be represented by a binary number. Because ANSI is the de facto worldwide standard for these code numbers, the standard ANSI character set is universal among microcomputer hardware and software. This is good news for Internet users because now you can write or paste an ANSI text document, such as a UCC collateral description, into our Online UCC Filing System and it will be easily stored and retrieved exactly as it was filed.
