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Japanese systems have a subset of ASCII and Japanese characters in the upper part.
Range | Usage |
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$00-$1f | Control characters (same as ASCII) |
$20-$7f | Roman alphanumeric and punctuation - same as ASCII except for $5c (should be Reverse Solidus "\", displayed as Yen Sign "¥") and $5f (should be Low Line "_", displayed as Greek Small Letter Pi "π"). |
$80-$89 | Box drawing lines |
$8a-$8d | Box drawing curves |
$8e-$8f | Arrows |
$90 | Shaded block |
$91-$94 | Box drawing lines |
$95-$9f | Part-filled blocks - diagonal and vertical |
$a0 | Space |
$a1-$a5 | Japanese punctuation |
$a6-$dd | Katakana |
$de-$df | Dakuten |
$e0-$e4 | Part-filled blocks - horizontal |
$e5 | Solid block |
$e6-$e9 | Thick lines |
$ea | Checkerboard pattern |
$eb-$ec | Circles |
$ed-$ef | Date characters 年月日 |
$f0-$f4 | Five Elements 火水木金土 |
$f5-$fd | Game graphics |
$fe | Division sign |
$ff | Unused |
Export systems use the Japanese font with the Japanese characters ($a0-$df and $ed-$f4) removed and extra characters for European languages in their place:
Range | Usage |
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$a0-$c2 | Accented letters |
$c3-$ca | Greek alphabet subset |
$cb | Letter Ç |
$cc-$cd | Inverted punctuation |
$ce | Combining half-A for Æ |
$cf | Pound/Lira symbol £/₤ |
$d0-$df | Unused |
$ed-$f4 | Unused |
A Windows .fon formatted font is available with this character set, which can be useful for viewing files written for the SC-3000.
Download SC-3000 font by Bimbo87