It was devised by the Associação Brasileira de Indústria de Computadores, a Brazilian computer industry association defunct[1] in 1992.
It was used on Brazilian-made computers and several printers brands.
It also contained characters to cover other languages such as Spanish, French, Italian and German.
However, the quotation marks "«" and "»" for (European) Portuguese, (European) Spanish, French and Italian are missing.
This character set[5] was different from the Brazilian Standard BraSCII,[6] which was very similar to ISO 8859-1.