<s>
The	O
Lotus	O
International	B-General_Concept
Character	I-General_Concept
Set	I-General_Concept
(	O
LICS	B-Application
)	O
is	O
a	O
proprietary	O
single-byte	O
character	B-General_Concept
encoding	I-General_Concept
introduced	O
in	O
1985	O
by	O
Lotus	O
Development	O
Corporation	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
based	O
on	O
the	O
1983	O
DEC	O
Multinational	O
Character	B-General_Concept
Set	I-General_Concept
(	O
MCS	O
)	O
for	O
VT220	B-Device
terminals	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
As	O
such	O
,	O
LICS	B-Application
is	O
also	O
similar	O
to	O
two	O
other	O
descendants	O
of	O
MCS	O
,	O
the	O
ECMA-94	O
character	B-General_Concept
set	I-General_Concept
of	O
1985	O
and	O
the	O
ISO	O
8859-1	O
(	O
Latin-1	O
)	O
character	B-General_Concept
set	I-General_Concept
of	O
1987	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
LICS	B-Application
was	O
first	O
introduced	O
as	O
the	O
character	B-General_Concept
set	I-General_Concept
of	O
Lotus	B-Application
1-2-3	I-Application
Release	O
2	O
for	O
DOS	B-Device
in	O
1985	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
also	O
utilized	O
by	O
2.01	O
,	O
2.2	O
,	O
2.3	O
and	O
2.4	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
by	O
Symphony	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
LICS	B-Application
was	O
superseded	O
by	O
the	O
Lotus	B-Operating_System
Multi-Byte	I-Operating_System
Character	I-Operating_System
Set	I-Operating_System
(	O
LMBCS	B-Operating_System
)	O
introduced	O
by	O
Lotus	B-Application
1-2-3	I-Application
Release	O
3	O
in	O
1989	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Codepoints	O
20hex	O
(	O
32	O
)	O
to	O
7Fhex	O
(	O
127	O
)	O
are	O
identical	O
to	O
ASCII	B-Protocol
(	O
as	O
well	O
as	O
to	O
LMBCS	B-Operating_System
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
For	O
some	O
characters	O
the	O
table	O
also	O
lists	O
dedicated	O
Lotus	B-Application
1-2-3	I-Application
compose	B-Device
key	I-Device
sequences	I-Device
to	O
ease	O
character	O
input	O
beyond	O
the	O
Alt	O
Numpad	O
input	O
method	O
.	O
</s>
