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 (ASCII/ISO/CCITT Latin alphabet and punctuation)
Character set 0x21 (Symbols 1 - Japanese punctuation and math symbols)
Character set 0x22: Symbols 2 - Japanese and mathematical symbols
Character set 0x23: Extended Latin alphabet
Character set 0x24: (Top) Japanese hiragana syllabary (Bottom) Chinese Bo-po-mo-fo
Character set 0x25: Japanese katakana syllabary
Character set 0x26: Greek alphabet
Character set 0x27: Cyrillic alphabet
Character set 0x28: (Top) JIS and IBM forms characters (Bottom) Mosaic characters
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
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