Stanford Extended ASCII (SEASCII) is a derivation of the 7-bit
ASCII
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character set developed at the
Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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(SAIL/SU-AI) in the early 1970s.
Not all symbols match ASCII.
Carnegie Mellon University
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, the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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, and the
University of Southern California
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also had their own modified versions of ASCII.
Character set
Each character is given with a potential Unicode equivalent.
See also
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Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Stanford University has many centers and institutes dedicated to the study of various specific topics. These centers and institutes may be within a department, within a school but across departments, an independent laboratory, institute or center ...
(SAIL/SU-AI)
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Stanford Artificial Intelligence Language (SAIL)
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Stanford/ITS character set
References
Further reading
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* (NB. Shows a table of SEASCII differing in a few code points from that described in RFC 698.)
External links
{{Character encoding
SEASCII
Computer-related introductions in the 1970s