Multinational Character Set

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The Multinational Character Set is a character encoding created by Digital Equipment Corporation for use in the popular VT220 terminal. It was an 8-bit extension of ASCII that added accented characters, currency symbols, and other things missing from 7-bit ASCII.

Such "extended ASCII" sets were common, but MCS has the distinction of being the ancestor of both ISO 8859-1 and Unicode. If you compare the code chart of MCS with ISO 8859-1 or the first 256 code points of Unicode, you will see that they have many more similarities than differences (code points that differ from ISO 8859-1 are colored yellow):

DEC Multinational Character Set
x0 x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 x7 x8 x9 xA xB xC xD xE xF
0x unused
1x
2x SP ! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . /
3x 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ?
4x @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O
5x P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _
6x ` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o
7x p q r s t u v w x y z { | } ~  
8x unused
9x
Ax   ¡ ¢ £   ¥   § ¨ © ª «  
Bx ° ± ² ³   µ ·   ¹ º » ¼ ½   ¿
Cx À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï
Dx   Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö Œ Ø Ù Ú Û Ü Ý   ß
Ex à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï
Fx   ñ ò ó ô õ ö œ ø ù ú û ü ÿ  

  • ISO 8859-1 and MCS, from ISO 8859 Alphabet Soup; [1]
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