Looking for some good old DEC Ultrix and VAX VMS references gives some hints for this legacy character set used in the default standard VT1xx to VT3xx terminal emulations (note that now, most terminal emulators prefer to use ISO-8859-1 by default, instead of DEC-MCS, sometimes available only as an option):
- ISO 8859-1 National Character Set FAQ http://www.ciesin.ee/OTHER/NCS-FAQ (many other sources found in Google for the same FAQ) - Message Exchange for VMS 5.5+ Release Notes http://www.tmk.com/ftp/ftp-madgoat-com/mx/mx052/mx052.release_notes Note also that the glibc NLS support (gconv) tables include a good table to support DEC-MCS... See also RFC1340 "Assigned Numbers" by J.Reynolds & J.Postel (published july 1992) page 80 of 139 (was STANDARD, obsoletes RFC1060, obsoleted by RFC1700; now HISTORIC): it is listed with reference: [170,KSX2]: Simonsen, K., "Character Mnemonics & Character Sets", RFC 1345, Rationel Almen Planlaegning, June 1992. Now looking in RFC 1345, I see this text: &charset DEC-MCS &rem VAX/VMS User's Manual, Order Number: AI-Y517A-TE, April 1986. &alias dec &code 0 NU SH SX EX ET EQ AK BL BS HT LF VT FF CR SO SI DL D1 D2 D3 D4 NK SY EB CN EM SB EC FS GS RS US SP ! " Nb DO % & ' ( ) * + , - . / 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ? At A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z <( // )> '> _ '! a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z (! !! !) '? DT PA HO BH NH IN NL SA ES HS HJ VS PD PU RI S2 S3 DC P1 P2 TS CC MW SG EG SS GC SC CI ST OC PM AC ?? !I Ct Pd ?? Ye ?? SE Cu Co -a << ?? ?? ?? ?? DG +- 2S 3S ?? My PI .M ?? 1S -o >> 14 12 ?? ?I A! A' A> A? A: AA AE C, E! E' E> E: I! I' I> I: ?? N? O! O' O> O? O: OE O/ U! U' U> U: Y: ?? ss a! a' a> a? a: aa ae c, e! e' e> e: i! i' i> i: ?? n? o! o' o> o? o: oe o/ u! u' u> u: y: ?? ?? This seems authoritative, but the mnemonics used in that RFC aren't clear... Well, that RFC 1345 was (and still is) INFORMATIVE... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Addison Phillips [wM]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 7:05 PM Subject: DEC-MCS mapping, anyone? > I'm looking for an authoritative mapping table of this old VMS encoding to Unicode and can't find one anywhere. Anyone got one handy? > > Thanks in advance! > > Addison > > Addison P. Phillips > Director, Globalization Architecture > webMethods | Delivering Global Business Visibility > > 432 Lakeside Drive, Sunnyvale, CA, USA > +1 408.962.5487 (office) +1 408.210.3569 (mobile) > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Chair, W3C-I18N-WG, Web Services Task Force > http://www.w3.org/International/ws > > Internationalization is an architecture. > It is not a feature. > >
