The German standard DIN 66003, also known as Code page 1011 (

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1011; abbreviated CP1011) by IBM, Code page 20106 (abbreviated CP20106) by Microsoft and D7DEC by Oracle, is a modification of 7-bit

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with adaptations for the

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, replacing certain symbol characters with umlauts and the eszett. It is the

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national version of

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(ISO 646-DE), and also a localised option in DEC's

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(NRCS) for their VT220 terminals. It is registered with the

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registry for use with

ISO/IEC 2022 ISO/IEC 2022 ''Information technology—Character code structure and extension techniques'', is an ISO/IEC standard (equivalent to the ECMA standard ECMA-35, the ANSI standard ANSI X3.41 and the Japanese Industrial Standard JIS X 0202) in the ...

as ISO-IR-21. Kermit calls it , but also accepts the IANA-registered name . Other IANA-registered names include , and simply .

Code page layout

References

External links

DIN 66003 purchase page

Airport display mojibake arising from the differences between DIN 66003 and ASCII
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66003

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