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MSX character set

MSX character set

Character set developed by Microsoft MSX character setLanguagesArabic, Portuguese, German, English, Japanese, Korean, RussianCreated byMicrosoftBased oncode page 437 MSX character sets are a group of single- and double-byte character sets developed by Microsoft for MSX computers. They are based on code page 437. Character sets The following table shows the MSX character set. Each character is shown with a potential Unicode 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 VT52 escape codes, plus extra control codes shown below. MSX International 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F 0x NULL graph WB ceol WF BEEP BS TAB LF home CLS RET eol 1x INS DL select ESC ⇨ ⇦ ⇧ ⇩ 2x SP ! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . / 3x 0 1