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BraSCII
Alias(es)ABNT
Language(s)Portuguese,English,various others
StandardABNT NBR 9611:1991
ClassificationExtended ASCII
ExtendsECMA-94:1985
Based onDEC MCS
Other related encoding(s)ISO-8859-1(ECMA-94:1986 or later)

BraSCIIis anencoded repertoire of charactersthat was used in Brazil. It was used in the 1980s on several printers, in applications likeCarta Certa[pt],in video boards[citation needed]and it was the standard character set in the Brazilian line ofMSXcomputers.[1]This code page is known by Star printers asCode page 3847.

History

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This character set was devised in 1986[2]by theBrazilian National Standards Organization(Associação Brasileira de Normas Técnicas(ABNT)) through the standard NBR-9614:1986 and later revised in 1991 in the standard NBR-9611:1991.[3]

The code is based on theISO/IEC 4873[4]standards, and it was nicknamed "BraSCII" (BrazilianStandardCode forInformationInterchange) in analogy to "American Standard Code for Information Interchange"(ASCII). While ASCII is a 7-bit code, BraSCII is an 8-bit code,[4]where the characters from 160 to 255 were configured to support extended characters. It is nearly identical toECMA-94(1985) andISO 8859-1(1987) except that the characters×and÷are replaced byŒandœ,[5][6][7]as they still were in theMultinational Character Set(MCS, 1983) andLotus International Character Set(LICS, 1985), whereas these code points were empty in the earliest versions ofECMA-94(1985)[8]and ISO 8859-1. However, it is completely identical for the first draft of ECMA-94 and ISO 8859-1. In some other devices, this character set is simply referred as "ABNT".

This character set[9]was different from the other Brazilian character set,ABICOMP.

The goal of this character set was to eliminate the "Babel's Tower"[4]of the existing coding systems for the Portuguese language (ISO IR-16,ISO IR-84, IBM 256, IBM 275,IBM 850,DEC Multinational,HP Roman-8,Mac OS Roman,etc.). In spite of that, this code set had troubles in imposing itself,[2][4]mainly due to the pressure of big multinational corporations and finished by being less and less used because of the ubiquity of other character sets (ISO 8859-1 and laterUnicode).

Coverage

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See also:Latin-script Alpha bet

Each character is encoded as a single eight-bit code value. These code values can be used in almost anydata interchangesystem to communicate in the following languages (with a few exceptions due to missing characters, as noted):

Notes
  1. ^Complete support except for Ǿ/ǿ which are missing. Ǿ/ǿ can be replaced with Ø/ø or øe at the cost of increased ambiguity.
  2. ^US and modern British.
  3. ^Basic classical orthography.
  4. ^Rumi script.
  5. ^Bokmål and Nynorsk.
  6. ^European and Brazilian.

The letterÿ,which appears in French only very rarely, and never at the beginning of words, is included only in lowercase form. The slot corresponding to its uppercase form is occupied by the lowercase letterßfrom the German language, which itself is rarely used inits uppercase form.

Character set

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BraSCII
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
0x
1x
2x SP ! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . /
3x 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ?
4x @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O
5x P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _
6x ' a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o
7x p q r s t u v w x y z { | } ~
8x
9x
Ax NBSP ¡ ¢ £ ¤ ¥ ¦ § ¨ © ª « ¬ SHY ® ¯
Bx ° ± ² ³ ' μ · ¸ ¹ º » ¼ ½ ¾ ¿
Cx À Á Â Ã Ä Å Æ Ç È É Ê Ë Ì Í Î Ï
Dx Ð Ñ Ò Ó Ô Õ Ö Œ
0152 		Ø Ù Ú Û Ü Ý Þ ß
Ex à á â ã ä å æ ç è é ê ë ì í î ï
Fx ð ñ ò ó ô õ ö œ
0153 		ø ù ú û ü ý þ ÿ
Differences fromISO 8859-1

References

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  1. ^"[Feature] MSX models are too european-centric for a japanese standard [sf#211] #235".github.
  2. ^ab"A batalha dos protocolos de redes de computadores localizada (no Brasil) no fim do Século XX"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 2017-12-15.Retrieved2017-02-25.
  3. ^Ficha descritiva da norma NBR-9611at ABNT site
  4. ^abcdIndústria Brasileira de Computadores — Perspectivas até os anos 90
  5. ^"Epson Stylus Color 200 User Guide - PC865 Nordic, Abicomp, BRASCII".twinhead.manuals365.Archived fromthe originalon 2016-10-13.Retrieved2017-02-24.
  6. ^"Star LC 8021 User's Manual"(PDF).Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 2020-09-29.Retrieved2017-02-24.
  7. ^"User manual for Brother HL-2135W - a user manual, servicing manual, settings and specifications ofBrother HL-2135W - page 136 - User manuals and advice for your devices - User-Manual.info".user-manual.info.
  8. ^Standard ECMA-94: 8-bit Single-Byte Coded Graphic Character Set(PDF)(1 ed.).European Computer Manufacturers Association(ECMA). March 1985 [1984-12-14].Archived(PDF)from the original on 2016-12-02.Retrieved2016-12-01.
  9. ^"Oki Data OKIPOS 425 D Developer's Guide 6.2.2.7 Abicomp".my.okidata.
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