What is winansi?

Question

I can't find a wikipage or anthing :(. It's an encoding like unicode right? So it has it's own mapping of code points to characters?

Answer 1

I believe that in most cases, someone saying "Win ANSI" or "Windows ANSI code page" is talking about the Windows-1252 character encoding. Calling it "ANSI" is a misnomer, as pointed out in that article.

Answer 2

Sometimes (in MSDN documentation for WinAPI calls) it is just a name for the current Windows system encoding, which may or may not be 1252.