ELOT 927 is 7-bit

character set Character encoding is the process of assigning numbers to graphical characters, especially the written characters of human language, allowing them to be stored, transmitted, and transformed using digital computers. The numerical values tha ...

standardized by

ELOT The Hellenic Organization for Standardization ( el, Ελληνικός Οργανισμός Τυποποίησης, ''Ellīnikós Organismós Typopoíīsīs''; abbreviated ΕΛΟΤ in Greek and ELOT in English) is the national standards organizatio ...

, the Hellenic Organization for Standardization (HOS). It is also known as ISO-IR-88, CSISO88GREEK7 or 7-bit DEC Greek. The standard was withdrawn in November 1986. Support for it was implemented in various

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s (for example by Fujitsu) and

line printer A line printer prints one entire line of text before advancing to another line. Most early line printers were impact printers. Line printers are mostly associated with unit record equipment and the early days of digital computing, but the ...

s (for example by Printronix and Siemens) as well as in

computer terminal A computer terminal is an electronic or electromechanical hardware device that can be used for entering data into, and transcribing data from, a computer or a computing system. The teletype was an example of an early-day hard-copy terminal and ...

s (for example by DEC). Support for it can still be found in various applications, languages and protocols today, for example in

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and Kermit.

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