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What does WE8DEC mean?

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Problem

It is one of the commonly used character sets. What does it stand for?

Is it an acronym for something?

Solution

WE8DEC is the old DEC MCS character set which stood for Digital Equipment Corporation Multinational Character Set. The WE8 prefix identifies this as a Western European 8-bit character set.

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StackExchange Database Administrators Q#3642, answer score: 8

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