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ANSI text (code page 437)

Files with ansi extension can be typically encountered as specially encoded text files, encoded using Code page 437 character set. Popular in the past for ANSI art.

Further details:

File extension ansi is sometimes used to label special text files encoded using Code page 437 (CCSID 437), a character set of the original IBM PC (personal computer).

For all intents and purposes it's just renamed .txt file with different encoding.

It is probably best known for use in ANSI art, which typically uses .ans files.

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