Multinational Character Set
Page Template:Mono/styles.css has no content.Page Module:Infobox/styles.css has no content.
| MIME / IANA | Page Template:Mono/styles.css has no content.DEC-MCS |
|---|---|
| Alias(es) | IBM1100, CP1100, WE8DEC, csDECMCS, dec |
| LanguageTemplate:Pluralize from text | English, various others |
| Extends | US-ASCII |
| Succeeded by | ISO 8859-1, LICS, BraSCII, Cork 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
Page Template:Legend/styles.css has no content.
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
- ^ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities' not found.
- ^ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities' not found. [sic]
- ^ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities' not found. [1] [2] [3]
- ^ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities' not found.
- ^ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities' not found.
- ^ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities' not found.
- ^ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities' not found.
- ^ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Citation/CS1/Utilities' not found. [4] [5]
Cite error: A list-defined reference named "vt220_t23" is not used in the content (see the help page).Template:Broken ref/cat
Cite error: A list-defined reference named "DEC_VT420" is not used in the content (see the help page).Template:Broken ref/cat
Cite error: A list-defined reference named "DEC_1986_VAXVMS" is not used in the content (see the help page).Template:Broken ref/cat
Cite error: A list-defined reference named "Flohr_2016_MCS" is not used in the content (see the help page).Template:Broken ref/cat
Cite error: A list-defined reference named "Kosta_DMCS" is not used in the content (see the help page).Template:Broken ref/cat
Cite error: A list-defined reference named "DEC_1999_MCS" is not used in the content (see the help page).Template:Broken ref/cat
Template:Digital Equipment Corporation Template:Character encoding
