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Multinational Character Set

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…

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Alias(es)
IBM1100, CP1100, WE8DEC, csDECMCS, dec
Extends
US-ASCII
Languages
English, various others
MIME / IANA
DEC-MCS
Succeeded by
ISO 8859-1, LICS, BraSCII, Cork encoding

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Multinational Character Set

Nodes16
Edges15
Triples5
Avg. degree1.88
Density0.125
Components1

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Multinational Character Set

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Alias(es) · 1
Multinational Character Set → IBM1100, CP1100, WE8DEC, csDECMCS, dec
Extends · 1
Multinational Character Set → US-ASCII
Languages · 1
Multinational Character Set → English, various others
MIME / IANA · 1
Multinational Character Set → DEC-MCS
Succeeded by · 1
Multinational Character Set → ISO 8859-1, LICS, BraSCII, Cork encoding

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character set mcs code iso 8859-1 multinational vt220 ascii ecma-94 dec national replacement points differences encoding we8dec languages brascii 8-bit

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Multinational Character SetAlias(es)IBM1100, CP1100, WE8DEC, csDECMCS, dec1.00infobox
Multinational Character SetExtendsUS-ASCII1.00infobox
Multinational Character SetLanguagesEnglish, various others1.00infobox
Multinational Character SetMIME / IANADEC-MCS1.00infobox
Multinational Character SetSucceeded byISO 8859-1, LICS, BraSCII, Cork encoding1.00infobox

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