DEC Technical Character Set

Character set supported by various DEC terminals

DEC Technical (TCS) is a 7-bit character set developed by Digital Equipment Corporation.

Character set

DEC Technical^[1]^[2]^[3]
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F
0x	NUL	SOH	STX	ETX	EOT	ENQ	ACK	BEL	BS	HT	LF	VT	FF	CR	SO	SI
1x	DLE	DC1	DC2	DC3	DC4	NAK	SYN	ETB	CAN	EM	SUB	ESC	FS	GS	RS	US
2x	SP	⎷	┌	─	⌠	⌡	│	⎡	⎣	⎤	⎦	⎛	⎝	⎞	⎠	⎨
3x	⎬	⎲	⎳	╲	╱	⌝	⌟	⟩					≤	≠	≥	∫
4x	∴	∝	∞	÷	Δ	∇	Φ	Γ	∼	≃	Θ	×	Λ	⇔	⇒	≡
5x	Π	Ψ		Σ			√	Ω	Ξ	Υ	⊂	⊃	∩	∪	∧	∨
6x	¬	α	β	χ	δ	ε	φ	γ	η	ι	θ	κ	λ		ν	∂
7x	π	ψ	ρ	σ	τ		ƒ	ω	ξ	υ	ζ	←	↑	→	↓	DEL

Characters from 31 to 37 are intended to assemble a 3x5 uppercase sigma.

References

^ Williams, Paul Flo (2002) [2000]. "DEC Technical Character Set (TCS)". Archived from the original on 2001-04-06. Retrieved 2017-07-16.
^ "Kermit Archive charsets.zip (see dectech.txt)".
^ "Unicode L2/00-159 UCSTERMINAL".

Installing and Using the VT420 Video Terminal. Digital Equipment Corporation. EK-VT420-UU-002. Retrieved 2017-07-16. [1]
VT330/VT340 Programmer Pocket Guide. Digital Equipment Corporation. March 1987. EK-VT3XX-HR-001. Retrieved 2017-07-16.
LN03 Programmer Reference Manual. Digital Equipment Corporation. November 1985. EK-OLN03-RM-002. Retrieved 2017-07-16. [2] Archived 2015-06-12 at the Wayback Machine

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	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F
0x	NUL	SOH	STX	ETX	EOT	ENQ	ACK	BEL	BS	HT	LF	VT	FF	CR	SO	SI
1x	DLE	DC1	DC2	DC3	DC4	NAK	SYN	ETB	CAN	EM	SUB	ESC	FS	GS	RS	US
2x	SP	⎷	┌	─	⌠	⌡	│	⎡	⎣	⎤	⎦	⎛	⎝	⎞	⎠	⎨
3x	⎬	⎲	⎳	╲	╱	⌝	⌟	⟩					≤	≠	≥	∫
4x	∴	∝	∞	÷	Δ	∇	Φ	Γ	∼	≃	Θ	×	Λ	⇔	⇒	≡
5x	Π	Ψ		Σ			√	Ω	Ξ	Υ	⊂	⊃	∩	∪	∧	∨
6x	¬	α	β	χ	δ	ε	φ	γ	η	ι	θ	κ	λ		ν	∂
7x	π	ψ	ρ	σ	τ		ƒ	ω	ξ	υ	ζ	←	↑	→	↓	DEL

	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F
0x	NUL	SOH	STX	ETX	EOT	ENQ	ACK	BEL	BS	HT	LF	VT	FF	CR	SO	SI
1x	DLE	DC1	DC2	DC3	DC4	NAK	SYN	ETB	CAN	EM	SUB	ESC	FS	GS	RS	US
2x	SP	⎷	┌	─	⌠	⌡	│	⎡	⎣	⎤	⎦	⎛	⎝	⎞	⎠	⎨
3x	⎬	⎲	⎳	╲	╱	⌝	⌟	⟩					≤	≠	≥	∫
4x	∴	∝	∞	÷	Δ	∇	Φ	Γ	∼	≃	Θ	×	Λ	⇔	⇒	≡
5x	Π	Ψ		Σ			√	Ω	Ξ	Υ	⊂	⊃	∩	∪	∧	∨
6x	¬	α	β	χ	δ	ε	φ	γ	η	ι	θ	κ	λ		ν	∂
7x	π	ψ	ρ	σ	τ		ƒ	ω	ξ	υ	ζ	←	↑	→	↓	DEL

	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F
0x	NUL	SOH	STX	ETX	EOT	ENQ	ACK	BEL	BS	HT	LF	VT	FF	CR	SO	SI
1x	DLE	DC1	DC2	DC3	DC4	NAK	SYN	ETB	CAN	EM	SUB	ESC	FS	GS	RS	US
2x	SP	⎷	┌	─	⌠	⌡	│	⎡	⎣	⎤	⎦	⎛	⎝	⎞	⎠	⎨
3x	⎬	⎲	⎳	╲	╱	⌝	⌟	⟩					≤	≠	≥	∫
4x	∴	∝	∞	÷	Δ	∇	Φ	Γ	∼	≃	Θ	×	Λ	⇔	⇒	≡
5x	Π	Ψ		Σ			√	Ω	Ξ	Υ	⊂	⊃	∩	∪	∧	∨
6x	¬	α	β	χ	δ	ε	φ	γ	η	ι	θ	κ	λ		ν	∂
7x	π	ψ	ρ	σ	τ		ƒ	ω	ξ	υ	ζ	←	↑	→	↓	DEL