Xerox Character Code Standard
| Language(s) | English, French, German, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean |
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| Created by | Xerox |
The Xerox Character Code Standard (XCCS) is a historical 16-bit character encoding that was created by Xerox[1] in 1980 for the exchange of information between elements of the Xerox Network Systems Architecture.[2] It encodes the characters required for languages using the Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, Greek and Cyrillic scripts, the Chinese, Japanese and Korean writing systems, and technical symbols.[3]
It can be viewed as an early precursor of, and inspiration for, the Unicode Standard.[4][1]
The International Character Set (ICS) is compatible with XCCS.[5]
The XCCS 2.0 (1990) revision covers Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, Gothic, Armenian, Runic, Georgian, Greek, Cyrillic, Hiragana, Katakana, Bopomofo scripts, technical, and mathematical symbols.[6]
Code charts
Character sets overview
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| 0x | 00 | |||||||||||||||
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| 2x | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | ||||||||
| 3x | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 3A | 3B | 3C | 3D | 3E | 3F |
| 4x | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 4A | 4B | 4C | 4D | 4E | 4F |
| 5x | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 5A | 5B | 5C | 5D | 5E | 5F |
| 6x | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | 65 | 66 | 67 | 68 | 69 | 6A | 6B | 6C | 6D | 6E | 6F |
| 7x | 70 | 71 | 72 | 73 | 74 | |||||||||||
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| Ex | E0 | E1 | E2 | E3 | EE | EF | ||||||||||
| Fx | F0 | F1 | FE | FF |
Character set 0x00
Letter Number Punctuation Symbol Other Undefined
Character set 0x21
Character set 0x22
Character set 0x23
Character set 0x24
Character set 0x25
Character set 0x26
Character set 0x27
Character set 0x28
Character set 0x30
Character set 0x31
Character set 0xE0
Character set 0xE1
Character set 0xE2
Character set 0xE3
Character set 0xEE
Character set 0xEF
Character set 0xF0
Character set 0xF1
See also
References
- ^ a b Haralambous, Yannis (September 2007). Fonts & Encodings. Translated by Horne, P. Scott (1st ed.). Sebastopol, California, USA: O'Reilly Media, Inc. p. 53. ISBN 978-0-596-10242-5.
- ^ "Xerox System Network Architecture General Information Manual". Xerox Corporation. April 1985. pp. 57–63. Retrieved 2016-10-25.
- ^ Centerlind, Tomas (1987-06-18). "International Character Code Standard for the BE2" (PDF). Information Technology Center (ITC), Carnegie Mellon University. CMU-ITC-87-091. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-11-25. Retrieved 2016-10-25.
- ^ Becker, Joseph D. (1998-09-10) [1988-08-29]. "Unicode 88" (PDF). unicode.org (10th anniversary reprint ed.). Unicode Consortium. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-11-25. Retrieved 2016-10-25.
In 1978, the initial proposal for a set of "Universal Signs" was made by Bob Belleville at Xerox PARC. Many persons contributed ideas to the development of a new encoding design. Beginning in 1980, these efforts evolved into the Xerox Character Code Standard (XCCS) by the present author, a multilingual encoding which has been maintained by Xerox as an internal corporate standard since 1982, through the efforts of Ed Smura, Ron Pellar, and others.
Unicode arose as the result of eight years of working experience with XCCS. Its fundamental differences from XCCS were proposed by Peter Fenwick and Dave Opstad (pure 16-bit codes), and by Lee Collins (ideographic character unification). Unicode retains the many features of XCCS whose utility have been proved over the years in an international line of communication multilingual system products. - ^ Salmons, Jim; Babitshky, Timlynn (1992). International OOP Directory. COOT, Inc. pp. 3–98.
- ^ Whistler, Kenneth. "Re: Questions about Unicode history". Retrieved 6 October 2017.
Further reading
- Character Code Standard, coll. "Xerox System Integration Standard". May 1980.
- Character Standard Code XSIS 058,405, coll. "Xerox System Integration Standard". April 1984. (100 pp.)
- Character Standard Code XNSS 058,405, coll. "Xerox System Integration Standard". May 1986.
- Character Standard Code XNSS 059,003 Version 2.0, coll. "Xerox System Integration Standard". June 1990.
- "Literature Catalog" (PDF). Xerox Systems Institute. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2016-11-25. Retrieved 2016-11-25.
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