Wang International Standard Code for Information Interchange (original) (raw)

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Proprietary version of ASCII

Wang International Standard Code for Information Interchange (WISCII) is a proprietary version of ASCII used by Wang Computer Corp on their personal computers and minicomputers in the 1980s. WISCII was used on the Wang PC (an IBM-PC compatible), as well as the Alliance APC, OIS, and VS systems. The first 126 characters were the same as ASCII (7-bit), but the remaining characters (ASCII 127-255), which consisted mostly of international letter symbols, were used only by Wang systems.[1][2][3]

WISCII[2]

| | 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 |  | À | Á | Ä | à | | Å | | Æ | Ç | | | Ê | È | É | Ë | | Ax | â | à | á | ä | ã | | å | | æ | ç | | | ê | è | é | ë | | Bx | Ǧ | IJ | İ | Î | Ì | Í | Ï | ĿL | Ñ | Ô | Ò | Ó | Ö | Õ | Œ | Ø | | Cx | ǧ | ij | ı | î | ì | í | ï | ŀl | ñ | ô | ò | ó | ö | õ | œ | ø | | Dx | Þ | Ð | Ý | Ş | | Û | Ù | Ú | Ü | © | ® | | ª | « | § | | | Ex | þ | ð | ý | ş | | û | ù | ú | ü | | ¤ | | º | » | ß | ˙ | | Fx | £ | ƒ | ¥ | ¼ | ½ | ¾ | ˆ | ` | ´ | ¨ | ˜ | ¸ | ˇ | ˘ | | |

  1. ^ Appendix E: Printer Character Set, Model 2245/160 Matrix Printer User's Guide, 1985
  2. ^ a b 800-1149-01_VS_Multi-Station_Users_Ref_Dec83.pdf, 1983
  3. ^ WANG-LaptopComputerOverView.pdf - 1986