Ventura International (or ''VENTURA_INT'') is an 8-bit
character encoding
Character encoding is the process of assigning numbers to Graphics, graphical character (computing), characters, especially the written characters of Language, human language, allowing them to be Data storage, stored, Data communication, transmi ...
created by
Ventura Software
Ventura Publisher was the first popular desktop publishing package for IBM PC compatible computers running the Graphics Environment Manager, GEM extension to the DOS operating system. The software was originally developed by Ventura Software, a s ...
for use with
Ventura Publisher
Ventura (Italian language, Italian, Portuguese language, Portuguese and Spanish language, Spanish for "fortune") may refer to:
Places
; Brazil
* Boa Ventura de São Roque, a municipality in the state of Paraná, southern Brazil
* Boa Ventura, ...
.
Ventura International is based on the
GEM character set The GEM character set is the character set of Digital Research's graphical user interface GEM on Intel platforms. It is based on code page 437, the original character set of the IBM PC, and like that set includes ASCII codes 32–126, extended co ...
, but ¢ and ø are swapped and ¥ and Ø are swapped so that it is more similar to
code page 437
Code page 437 (CCSID 437) is the character set of the original IBM PC (personal computer). It is also known as CP437, OEM-US, OEM 437, PC-8, or DOS Latin US. The set includes all printable ASCII characters as well as some accented letters (diacri ...
(on which GEM was based, but GEM is more similar to
code page 865
Code page 865 (CCSID 865) (also known as CP 865, IBM 00865, OEM 865, DOS Nordic) is a code page used under DOS in Denmark and Norway to write Nordic languages (except Icelandic, for which code page 861 is used).
Code page 865 differs from code pa ...
because the placement of Ø and ø in GEM match the placement in code page 865). There is also the PCL Ventura International, which is used for communication with PCL printers. PCL Ventura International is based on
HP Roman-8
In computing HP Roman is a family of character sets consisting of HP Roman Extension, HP Roman-8, HP Roman-9 and several variants. Originally introduced by Hewlett-Packard around 1978, revisions and adaptations were published several times up t ...
. Both have the same
character set
Character encoding is the process of assigning numbers to graphical characters, especially the written characters of human language, allowing them to be stored, transmitted, and transformed using digital computers. The numerical values that ...
, but a different encoding.
Ventura International character set
PCL Ventura International character set
Conversion tables
:::
:::
See also
*
Ventura Symbol
References
{{character encodings
Character sets