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The characters included the 96 printable ASCII characters, 67 Display Controls, 32 DEC Special Graphics, and a backward question mark used to represent undefined characters. The VT200s included the ability to make minor changes to the character set using the National Replacement Character Set (NRCS) concept.
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 based on the 1983 DEC Multinational Character Set (MCS) for VT220 terminals. As such, LICS is also similar to two other descendants of MCS, the ECMA-94 character set of 1985 [1] and the ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) character set of 1987. LICS was first introduced as the character set of Lotus 1-2-3 Release 2 for DOS in 1985.
[1] [2] On an 8-bit clean serial link, ASCII can be expanded to support a total of 256 characters. In this case, instead of replacing the characters in the original printable characters range from 32 to 127, new characters are added in the 128 to 255 range. This offers enough room for a single character set to include all the variety of ...
The VT420 has a total of 5 sets of 94 characters for normal VT operation, another 3 sets of 128 PC characters, and 1 set of 96 characters containing various graphics and math symbols. Like all models since the VT200 series , the user can also upload a custom character set of their own design using the Sixel system.
DEC Special Graphics [1] is a 7-bit character set developed by Digital Equipment Corporation.This was used very often to draw boxes on the VT100 video terminal and the many emulators, and used by bulletin board software.
Printable version; In other projects ... Multinational Character Set; N. NEC PC-100; ... VT220; VTech Laser 200; Z. ZX Interface 1;
Code page 1012 (CCSID 1012), [1] also known as CP1012 or I7DEC, [2] is IBM's code page for the Italian version of ISO 646, also known as ISO 646-IT IR 15. [3] [4] [5] The character set was originally specified in UNI 0204-70. It is also part of DEC's National Replacement Character Set (NRCS) for their VT220 terminals.