MSX character sets are a group of

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for MSX computers. They are based on

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Character sets

The following table shows the MSX character set. Each character is shown with a potential

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equivalent if available. Control characters and other non-printing characters are represented by their names. Character set differences exist, depending on the target market of the machine. These are the variations: * Arabic * Brazilian * German DIN * International * Japanese * Korean * Russian The German DIN and International character sets are identical, apart from the style of zero (0) character. The international character set has a zero with a slash, while the DIN character set has a dotted zero. The MSX terminal is compatible with

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escape codes, plus extra control codes shown below.

Brazilian variants

Gradiente custom charset

The Brazilian manufacturer Gradiente have initially included a modified MSX character set on their v1.0 machines to allow writing correct Portuguese. Differences are shown boxed. The symbol at 0x9E (158) is the currency symbol for the

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which is not used anymore.

BRASCII

Later Brazilian MSX models (v1.1 or higher) included a standardized character set named BRASCII, which solved the accentuation incompatibility problems amongst the different makers.

References

{{Character encodings Character sets MSX