The Xerox Character Code Standard (XCCS) is a historical 16-bit

character encoding Character encoding is the process of assigning numbers to graphical character (computing), characters, especially the written characters of human language, allowing them to be stored, transmitted, and transformed using computers. The numerical v ...

that was created by

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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 Latin ( or ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic languages, Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally spoken by the Latins (Italic tribe), Latins in Latium (now known as Lazio), the lower Tiber area aroun ...

Arabic Arabic (, , or , ) is a Central Semitic languages, Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) assigns lang ...

Hebrew Hebrew (; ''ʿÎbrit'') is a Northwest Semitic languages, Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic languages, Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the Israelites and ...

, Greek and

Cyrillic The Cyrillic script ( ) is a writing system used for various languages across Eurasia. It is the designated national script in various Slavic, Turkic, Mongolic, Uralic, Caucasian and Iranic-speaking countries in Southeastern Europe, Ea ...

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

, Gothic,

Armenian Armenian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Armenia, a country in the South Caucasus region of Eurasia * Armenians, the national people of Armenia, or people of Armenian descent ** Armenian diaspora, Armenian communities around the ...

, Runic, Georgian, Greek,

Hiragana is a Japanese language, Japanese syllabary, part of the Japanese writing system, along with ''katakana'' as well as ''kanji''. It is a phonetic lettering system. The word ''hiragana'' means "common" or "plain" kana (originally also "easy", ...

Katakana is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji). The word ''katakana'' means "fragmentary kana", as the katakana characters are derived fr ...

Bopomofo Bopomofo, also called Zhuyin Fuhao ( ; ), or simply Zhuyin, is a Chinese transliteration, transliteration system for Standard Chinese and other Sinitic languages. It is the principal method of teaching Chinese Mandarin pronunciation in Taiwa ...

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