The German standard

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66003, also known as Code page 1011 (

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1011; abbreviated CP1011) by

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, Code page 20106 (abbreviated CP20106) by Microsoft and D7DEC by Oracle, is a modification of 7-bit

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with adaptations for the

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, replacing certain symbol characters with umlauts and the eszett. It is the

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national version of

ISO/IEC 646 ISO/IEC 646 ''Information technology — ISO 7-bit coded character set for information interchange'', is an International Organization for Standardization, ISO/International Electrotechnical Commission, IEC standard in the ...

(ISO 646-DE), and also a localised option in DEC's

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(NRCS) for their

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terminals. It is registered with the

ISO-IR ISO/IEC 2022 ''Information technology—Character code structure and extension techniques'', is an ISO/IEC standard in the field of character encoding. It is equivalent to the ECMA standard ECMA-35, the ANSI standard ANSI X3.41 and the Japanese ...

registry for use with

ISO/IEC 2022 ISO/IEC 2022 ''Information technology—Character code structure and extension techniques'', is an ISO/ IEC standard in the field of character encoding. It is equivalent to the ECMA standard ECMA-35, the ANSI standard ANSI X3.41 and the Japane ...

as ISO-IR-21. Kermit calls it , but also accepts the

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-registered name . Other IANA-registered names include , and simply .

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DIN 66003 purchase page

Airport display mojibake arising from the differences between DIN 66003 and ASCII
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1011 Year 1011 ( MXI) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian Calendar. Events By place Europe * June 11 – Lombard Revolt: Mahmoud the Fat of Bari rises up against the Lombard rebels, led by Melus, and delivers the city ...

66003

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