Complex sentence: The Lotus International Character Set (LICS) is a proprietary single-byte character encoding originally developed in 1985 at Lotus Development Corporation on the basis of the 1983 DEC Multinational Character Set (DMCS) for VT220 terminals.
Split into simpler sentences: The Lotus International Character Set (LICS) is a proprietary single-byte character encoding introduced in 1985 by Lotus Development Corporation. It is based on the 1983 DEC Multinational Character Set (DMCS) for VT220 terminals.