Compucolor II character set

Compucolor II is a character set developed by Compucolor Corporation for their Compucolor computers. These used a SMC CRT5027 video controller, a Japanese-produced version of the Texas Instruments TMS 9927, programmed to provide a screen format of 32 lines with 64 characters per line.

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Compucolor II is a character set developed by Compucolor Corporation for their Compucolor computers.^[1]^[2] These used a SMC CRT5027 video controller,^[3]^[4] a Japanese-produced version of the Texas Instruments TMS 9927, programmed to provide a screen format of 32 lines with 64 characters per line.^[5]

Character set

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The following table shows the Compucolor II character set:^[1]^[6]

Compucolor II character set
	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F
0x	�	⎸	⎹	�	�	⎺	�	�	�	�	�	�
1x					�	�	�	�	�	�	�		╲		╱	⎽
2x	SP	!	"	#	$	%	&	'	(	)	*	+	,	-	.	/
3x	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	:	;	<	=	>	?
4x	@	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M	N	O
5x	P	Q	R	S	T	U	V	W	X	Y	Z	[	\	]	^	_
6x	▒	♞	�	♣	♦	�	�	�	♥	�		♟	�	�	�	�
7x	�	�	♜	♠					╳	�	�	�	◣	�	◢	�

� Not in Unicode, most are pieces designed to make 2x2 character large letters

References

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^ ^a ^b Compucolor II - Instruction Manual (PDF). Compucolor Corporation. p. 17.
^ "CompuColor II". OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum. Retrieved 2023-01-13.
^ Compucolor II programming and reference manual (PDF). Compucolor Corporation. 1979. pp. Appendix G.3.
^ CRT 5027 - CRT video timer and controller VTAC (PDF). Standard Microsystems Corporation. p. 293.
^ DURRETT, H. (1979). "Color display systems: The state of the art" (PDF). Behavior Research Methods & Instrumentation. 11 (2): 129. doi:10.3758/BF03205632. S2CID 61837356.
^ Compucolor II Programming and Reference Manual (PDF). Compucolor Corporation. 1979. p. 114.

Character encodings

Early
telecommunication

Telegraph code
- Needle
- Morse
  - Non-Latin
  - Wabun/Kana
  - Chinese
  - Cyrillic
- Baudot and Murray
Fieldata
ASCII
- ISO/IEC 646
BCDIC
Teletex and Videotex/Teletext
- T.51/ISO/IEC 6937
- ITU T.61
- ITU T.101
- World System Teletext
  - background
  - sets
Transcode

ISO/IEC 8859

Approved parts
Abandoned parts
- -12 (Devanagari)
Proposed but not approved
- KOI-8 Cyrillic
- Sámi
Adaptations

Bibliographic use

National standards

ISO/IEC 2022

Code pages

Mac OS ("scripts")	Armenian Arabic Barents Cyrillic Celtic Central European Croatian Cyrillic Devanagari Font X (Kermit) Gaelic Georgian Greek Gujarati Gurmukhi Hebrew Iceland Inuit Keyboard Latin (Kermit) Maltese/Esperanto Ogham Roman Romanian Sámi Turkish Turkic Cyrillic Ukrainian VT100
DOS	437 737 850 858 861 862 863 864 865 866 867 868 869 899 904 932 936 942 949 950 951 1040 1043 1046 1098 1115 1116 1117 1118 1127 ABICOMP CS Indic CSX Indic CSX+ Indic CWI-2 Iran System Kamenický Mazovia MIK
IBM AIX	895 896 912 915 921 922 1006 1008 1009 1010 1012 1013 1014 1015 1016 1017 1018 1019 1046 1133
Windows	CER-GS 932 936 (GBK) 950 Extended Latin-8 1250 1251 1252 1253 1254 1255 1256 1257 1258 1270 Cyrillic + French Cyrillic + German Polytonic Greek
EBCDIC	Japanese language in EBCDIC DKOI
DEC terminals (VTx)	Multinational (MCS) National Replacement (NRCS) French Canadian Swiss Spanish United Kingdom Dutch Finnish French Norwegian and Danish Swedish Norwegian and Danish (alternative) 8-bit Greek 8-bit Turkish SI 960 Hebrew Special Graphics Technical (TCS)
Platform specific	1052 1053 1054 1055 1058 Acorn RISC OS Amstrad CPC Apple II ATASCII Atari ST BICS Casio calculators CDC Compucolor 8001 Compucolor II CP/M+ DEC RADIX 50 DEC MCS/NRCS DG International Galaksija GEM GSM 03.38 HP Roman HP FOCAL HP RPL SQUOZE LICS LMBCS MSX NEC APC NeXT PETSCII PostScript Standard PostScript Latin 1 SAM Coupé Sega SC-3000 Sharp calculators Sharp MZ Sinclair QL Teletext TI calculators TRS-80 Ventura International WISCII XCCS ZX80 ZX81 ZX Spectrum
Other	ABICOMP ASMO 449 Digital encoding of APL symbols ISO-IR-68 ARIB STD-B24 Fieldata HZ IEC-P27-1 INIS 7-bit 8-bit ISO-IR-169 ISO 2033 KOI KOI8-R KOI8-RU KOI8-U Mojikyō SEASCII Stanford/ITS Symbol TRON Unified Hangul Code

Unicode,
ISO/IEC 10646

TeX typesetting

Control character

	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F
0x	�	⎸	⎹	�	�	⎺	�	�	�	�	�	�
1x					�	�	�	�	�	�	�		╲		╱	⎽
2x	SP	!	"	#	$	%	&	'	(	)	*	+	,	-	.	/
3x	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	:	;	<	=	>	?
4x	@	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M	N	O
5x	P	Q	R	S	T	U	V	W	X	Y	Z	[	\	]	^	_
6x	▒	♞	�	♣	♦	�	�	�	♥	�		♟	�	�	�	�
7x	�	�	♜	♠					╳	�	�	�	◣	�	◢	�

	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F
0x	�	⎸	⎹	�	�	⎺	�	�	�	�	�	�
1x					�	�	�	�	�	�	�		╲		╱	⎽
2x	SP	!	"	#	$	%	&	'	(	)	*	+	,	-	.	/
3x	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	:	;	<	=	>	?
4x	@	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M	N	O
5x	P	Q	R	S	T	U	V	W	X	Y	Z	[	\	]	^	_
6x	▒	♞	�	♣	♦	�	�	�	♥	�		♟	�	�	�	�
7x	�	�	♜	♠					╳	�	�	�	◣	�	◢	�

Compucolor II character set

Character set

See also

References

	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	A	B	C	D	E	F
0x	�	⎸	⎹	�	�	⎺	�	�	�	�	�	�
1x					�	�	�	�	�	�	�		╲		╱	⎽
2x	SP	!	"	#	$	%	&	'	(	)	*	+	,	-	.	/
3x	0	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	:	;	<	=	>	?
4x	@	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	J	K	L	M	N	O
5x	P	Q	R	S	T	U	V	W	X	Y	Z	[	\	]	^	_
6x	▒	♞	�	♣	♦	�	�	�	♥	�		♟	�	�	�	�
7x	�	�	♜	♠					╳	�	�	�	◣	�	◢	�