And in Win32, the term "ANSI" is used variously to refer to the current default non-UTF-16 character encoding, any non-UTF-16 character encoding, any non-MS-DOS, non-UTF-16 character encoding, and probably other things I've forgotten.
Ironically, one of the few things you can reliably say about any "ANSI" encoding in Windows is that it was never standardized by ANSI.
Ironically, one of the few things you can reliably say about any "ANSI" encoding in Windows is that it was never standardized by ANSI.