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<ref name="vt220_pr">{{cite web |url=http://vt100.net/docs/vt220-rm/ |title=VT220 Programmer Reference Manual |publisher=[[Digital Equipment Corporation]] (DEC) |date=1984 |orig-year=1983 |edition=2}}</ref> | <ref name="vt220_pr">{{cite web |url=http://vt100.net/docs/vt220-rm/ |title=VT220 Programmer Reference Manual |publisher=[[Digital Equipment Corporation]] (DEC) |date=1984 |orig-year=1983 |edition=2}}</ref> | ||
<ref name="vt220_t23">{{cite web |title=VT220 Programmer Reference Manual |publisher=[[Digital Equipment Corporation]] (DEC) |at=Table 2-3: DEC Multinational Character Set (C1 and GR Codes) |url=http://vt100.net/docs/vt220-rm/table2-3b.html |access-date=2016-12-02 }}</ref> | <ref name="vt220_t23">{{cite web |title=VT220 Programmer Reference Manual |publisher=[[Digital Equipment Corporation]] (DEC) |at=Table 2-3: DEC Multinational Character Set (C1 and GR Codes) |url=http://vt100.net/docs/vt220-rm/table2-3b.html |access-date=2016-12-02 }}</ref> | ||
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<ref name="Oracle_2002_DEC">{{cite book |title=Oracle9i Database Globalization Support Guide |author-first1=Cathy |author-last1=Baird |author-first2=Dan |author-last2=Chiba |author-first3=Winson |author-last3=Chu |author-first4=Jessica |author-last4=Fan |author-first5=Claire |author-last5=Ho |author-first6=Simon |author-last6=Law |author-first7=Geoff |author-last7=Lee |author-first8=Peter |author-last8=Linsley |author-first9=Keni |author-last9=Matsuda |author-first10=Tamzin |author-last10=Oscroft |author-first11=Shige |author-last11=Takeda |author-first12=Linus |author-last12=Tanaka |author-first13=Makoto |author-last13=Tozawa |author-first14=Barry |author-last14=Trute |author-first15=Mayumi |author-last15=Tsujimoto |author-first16=Ying |author-last16=Wu |author-first17=Michael |author-last17=Yau |author-first18=Tim |author-last18=Yu |author-first19=Chao |author-last19=Wang |author-first20=Simon |author-last20=Wong |author-first21=Weiran |author-last21=Zhang |author-first22=Lei |author-last22=Zheng |author-first23=Yan |author-last23=Zhu |author-first24=Valarie |author-last24=Moore |publisher=[[Oracle Corporation]] |edition=Release 2 (9.2) |date=2002 |orig-year=1996 |id=Oracle A96529-01 |chapter=Appendix A: Locale Data |url=https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96529.pdf |access-date=2017-02-14 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214190952/https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96529.pdf |archive-date=2017-02-14}}</ref> | <ref name="Oracle_2002_DEC">{{cite book |title=Oracle9i Database Globalization Support Guide |author-first1=Cathy |author-last1=Baird |author-first2=Dan |author-last2=Chiba |author-first3=Winson |author-last3=Chu |author-first4=Jessica |author-last4=Fan |author-first5=Claire |author-last5=Ho |author-first6=Simon |author-last6=Law |author-first7=Geoff |author-last7=Lee |author-first8=Peter |author-last8=Linsley |author-first9=Keni |author-last9=Matsuda |author-first10=Tamzin |author-last10=Oscroft |author-first11=Shige |author-last11=Takeda |author-first12=Linus |author-last12=Tanaka |author-first13=Makoto |author-last13=Tozawa |author-first14=Barry |author-last14=Trute |author-first15=Mayumi |author-last15=Tsujimoto |author-first16=Ying |author-last16=Wu |author-first17=Michael |author-last17=Yau |author-first18=Tim |author-last18=Yu |author-first19=Chao |author-last19=Wang |author-first20=Simon |author-last20=Wong |author-first21=Weiran |author-last21=Zhang |author-first22=Lei |author-last22=Zheng |author-first23=Yan |author-last23=Zhu |author-first24=Valarie |author-last24=Moore |publisher=[[Oracle Corporation]] |edition=Release 2 (9.2) |date=2002 |orig-year=1996 |id=Oracle A96529-01 |chapter=Appendix A: Locale Data |url=https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96529.pdf |access-date=2017-02-14 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170214190952/https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96529.pdf |archive-date=2017-02-14}}</ref> | ||
<ref name="DEC_1999_MCS">{{cite web |title=DEC Multinational Character Set (1987) to Unicode |publisher=[[Unicode, Inc.]] |date=1999-07-07 |version=0.1 |author-first=John Woldemar |author-last=Cowan |author-link=John Woldemar Cowan |url=https://www.math.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/Software/csets/DECMCS.TXT |access-date=2017-02-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218235457/https://www.math.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/Software/csets/DECMCS.TXT |archive-date=2017-02-18 }}</ref> | <ref name="DEC_1999_MCS">{{cite web |title=DEC Multinational Character Set (1987) to Unicode |publisher=[[Unicode, Inc.]] |date=1999-07-07 |version=0.1 |author-first=John Woldemar |author-last=Cowan |author-link=John Woldemar Cowan |url=https://www.math.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/Software/csets/DECMCS.TXT |access-date=2017-02-18 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218235457/https://www.math.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/Software/csets/DECMCS.TXT |archive-date=2017-02-18 }}</ref> | ||
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Latest revision as of 10:17, 16 December 2025
Template:Short description Template:Infobox character encoding The Multinational Character Set (DMCS or MCS) is a character encoding created in 1983 by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) for use in the popular VT220 terminal. It was an 8-bit extension of ASCII that added accented characters, currency symbols, and other character glyphs missing from 7-bit ASCII. It is only one of the code pages implemented for the VT220 National Replacement Character Set (NRCS).[1][2] MCS is registered as IBM code page/CCSID 1100 (Multinational Emulation) since 1992.[3][4] Depending on associated sorting Oracle calls it WE8DEC, N8DEC, DK8DEC, S8DEC, or SF8DEC.[5][6]
Such "extended ASCII" sets were common (the National Replacement Character Set provided sets for more than a dozen European languages), but MCS has the distinction of being the ancestor of ECMA-94 in 1985[7] and ISO 8859-1 in 1987.[8]
The code chart of MCS with ECMA-94, ISO 8859-1 and the first 256 code points of Unicode have many more similarities than differences. In addition to unused code points, differences from ISO 8859-1 are:
| MCS code point | Unicode mapping | Character |
|---|---|---|
| 0xA8 | U+00A4 | ¤ |
| 0xD7 | U+0152 | Π|
| 0xDD | U+0178 | Ÿ |
| 0xF7 | U+0153 | œ |
| 0xFD | U+00FF | ÿ |
Character set
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See also
- Lotus International Character Set (LICS), a very similar character set
- BraSCII, a very similar character set
- 8-bit DEC Greek (Code page 1287)
- 8-bit DEC Turkish (Code page 1288)
- 8-bit DEC Hebrew
- 8-bit DEC Cyrillic (KOI-8 Cyrillic)
- 8-bit DEC Special Graphics (VT100 Line Drawing) (DEC-SPECIAL)
- 8-bit DEC Technical Character Set (DEC-TECHNICAL)
- DEC Kanji (JIS X 0208)
References
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