Xerox Character Code Standard
The Xerox Character Code Standard (XCCS) is a historical 16-bit character encoding that was created by Xerox in 1980 for the exchange of information between elements of the Xerox Network Systems Architecture. 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.
It can be viewed as an early precursor of, and inspiration for, the Unicode Standard.
The International Character Set (ICS) is compatible with XCCS.
The XCCS 2.0 (1990) revision covers Latin, Arabic, Hebrew, Gothic, Armenian, Runic, Georgian, Greek, Cyrillic, Hiragana, Katakana, Bopomofo scripts, technical, and mathematical symbols.
Code charts
Character sets overview
Character set 0x00
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
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.