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{{Short description|Character sets used by Adobe Systems' PostScript}}

{{Infobox character encoding

|name = PostScript Standard Encoding

|alias = Code page 1276

|by = [[Adobe Inc.|Adobe]]

|otherrelated = {{plainlist|

* [[Teletext character set|ETS 300 706]]

* [[ISO 6937]]

* [[ITU T.51]]

* [[ITU T.61]]

* [[Videotex character set|ITU T.101]]}}

* [[NeXT character set|NeXT Multinational}}

}}

The '''PostScript Standard Encoding''' (often spelled '''StandardEncoding''', aliased as '''PostScript'''<ref name="Czyborra_1998_StdEnc"/>) is one of the character sets (or encoding vectors) used by [[Adobe Systems]]' [[PostScript]] (PS) since 1984.<ref name="Adobe_PLRM3"/> In 1995, [[IBM]] assigned '''code page 1276''' ([[CCSID]] 1276) to this character set.<ref>{{cite web|title=Code page 1276 information document|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218095927/https://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/cp/cp01276.html|archive-date=2017-02-18|url=https://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/cp/cp01276.html}}</ref><ref name="IBM_CP1276"/> [[NeXT]] based the character set for its [[NeXTSTEP]] and [[OPENSTEP]] operating systems on this one.