DEC Multinational Character Set
The multinational character set (short DEC MCS ) is a character set that from the Digital Equipment Corporation for use with the VT220 - Terminal was designed (1983). It is an 8-bit extension of ASCII with additional letters with accents , currency symbols , and other characters that are missing in 7-bit ASCII.
There were many such extensions of ASCII, the special thing about DEC MCS is that it is a direct ancestor of ISO 8859-1 and thus Unicode . A comparison with ISO 8859-1 or the first 256 characters of Unicode reveals the many similarities.
| code | … 0 | …1 | … 2 | … 3 | … 4 | … 5 | … 6 | … 7 | …8th | … 9 | … A | … B | ... C | … D | … E | ... F |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 ... | NUL | SOH | STX | ETX | EOT | ENQ | ACK | BEL | BS | HT | LF | VT | FF | CR | SO | SI |
| 1… | DLE | DC1 | DC2 | DC3 | DC4 | NAK | SYN | ETB | CAN | EM | SUB | ESC | FS | GS | RS | US |
| 2… | SP | ! | " | # | $ | % | & | ' | ( | ) | * | + | , | - | . | / |
| 3… | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | : | ; | < | = | > | ? |
| 4… | @ | A. | B. | C. | D. | E. | F. | G | H | I. | J | K | L. | M. | N | O |
| 5… | P | Q | R. | S. | T | U | V | W. | X | Y | Z | [ | \ | ] | ^ | _ |
| 6… | ` | a | b | c | d | e | f | G | H | i | j | k | l | m | n | O |
| 7… | p | q | r | s | t | u | v | w | x | y | z | { | | | } | ~ | DEL |
| 8th… | Control characters | |||||||||||||||
| 9 ... | ||||||||||||||||
| A ... | ¡ | ¢ | £ | ¥ | § | ¤ | © | ª | « | |||||||
| B ... | ° | ± | ² | ³ | µ | ¶ | · | ¹ | º | » | ¼ | ½ | ¿ | |||
| C ... | À | Á | Â | Ã | Ä | Å | Æ | Ç | È | É | Ê | Ë | Ì | Í | Î | Ï |
| D ... | Ñ | O | O | O | O | Ö | Œ | O | Ù | Ú | Û | Ü | Ý | ß | ||
| E ... | à | á | â | ã | Ä | å | æ | ç | è | é | ê | ë | ì | í | î | ï |
| F ... | ñ | O | O | O | O | ö | œ | O | ù | ú | û | ü | ÿ | |||
Differences to ISO 8859-1
Web links
- Digital Equipment Corporation Multinational Character Set (DEC MCS) at Columbia University, accessed May 22, 2013