MSX character set

Short description: Character set developed by Microsoft

MSX character setLanguage(s)| Arabic, Portuguese, German, English, Japanese, Korean, Russian

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Created by| Microsoft
Based on| code page 437

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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.

## Contents

* 1 Character sets
* 1.1 Brazilian variants
* 1.1.1 Gradiente custom charset
* 1.1.2 BRASCII
* 1.2 Japanese variant
* 2 References

## 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[1][2]

| 0  | 1  | 2  | 3  | 4  | 5  | 6  | 7  | 8  | 9  | A  | B  | C  | D  | E  | F
0x  | NULL | graph | WB[lower-alpha 1] |  |  | ceol[lower-alpha 2] | WF[lower-alpha 3] | BEEP | BS | TAB | LF | home[lower-alpha 4] | CLS | RET | eol[lower-alpha 5] |
1x  |  |  | INS[lower-alpha 6] |  |  | DL[lower-alpha 7] |  |  | select[lower-alpha 8] |  |  | ESC | ⇨[lower-alpha 9] | ⇦[lower-alpha 10] | ⇧[lower-alpha 11] | ⇩[lower-alpha 12]
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 | [ | \ | ] | ^ | [[Underscore|]]
6x  | ` | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o
7x  | p | q | r | s | t | u | v | w | x | y | z | { | | | }  | ~ | DEL
8x  | Ç | ü | é | â | ä | à | å | ç | ê | ë | è | ï | î | ì | Ä | Å
9x  | É | æ | Æ | ô | ö | ò | û | ù | ÿ | Ö | Ü | ¢ | £ | ¥ | ₧ | ƒ
Ax  | á | í | ó | ú | ñ | Ñ | ª | º | ¿ | ⌐ | ¬ | ½ | ¼ | ¡ | « | »
Bx  | Ã | ã | Ĩ | ĩ | Õ[lower-alpha 13] | õ[lower-alpha 14] | Ű | ű | Ĳ | ĳ | ¾ | ∽ | ◊ | ‰ | ¶ | §
Cx  | ▂ | ▚ | ▆ | 🮂 | ▬ | 🮅 | ▎ | ▞ | ▊ | 🮇 | 🮊 | 🮙 | 🮘 | 🭭 | 🭯 | 🭬
Dx  | 🭮 | 🮚 | 🮛 | ▘ | ▗ | ▝ | ▖ | 🮖 | Δ | ‡ | ω | █ | ▄ | ▌ | ▐ | ▀
Ex  | α | ß | Γ | π | Σ | σ | µ | τ | Φ | Θ | Ω | δ | ∞ | ⌀ | ∈ | ∩
Fx  | ≡ | ± | ≥ | ≤ | ⌠ | ⌡ | ÷ | ≈ | ° | ∙ | · | √ | ⁿ | ² | ■ | cursor

1. ↑ moves the cursor to the previous word
2. ↑ deletes the line to the right of the cursor
3. ↑ moves the cursor to the next word
4. ↑ places the cursor at top left of the screen
5. ↑ moves the cursor to the end of the line
6. ↑ insert key
7. ↑ deletes the line where the cursor is located
8. ↑ Special key. Its function can vary amongst applications
9. ↑ moves the cursor one character to the right
10. ↑ moves the cursor one character to the left
11. ↑ moves the cursor up
12. ↑ moves the cursor down
13. ↑ could also be Ő
14. ↑ could also be ő

MSX International[1][2]

| 0  | 1  | 2  | 3  | 4  | 5  | 6  | 7  | 8  | 9  | A  | B  | C  | D  | E  | F
4x  | NBSP | ☺ | ☻ | ♥ | ♦ | ♣ | ♠ | • | ◘ | ○ | ◙ | ♂ | ♀ | ♪ | ♫ | ☼
5x  | ⟊ | ┴ | ┬ | ┤ | ├ | ┼ | │ | ─ | ┌ | ┐ | └ | ┘ | ╳ | ╱ | ╲ | 🮯

### 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 Brazilian cruzado which is not used anymore.

MSX Brazilian

| 0  | 1  | 2  | 3  | 4  | 5  | 6  | 7  | 8  | 9  | A  | B  | C  | D  | E  | F
8x  | Ç | ü | é | â | Á | à | ¨ | ç | ê | Í | Ó | Ú | Â | Ê | Ô | À
9x  | É | æ | Æ | ô | ö | ò | û | ù | ÿ | Ö | Ü | ¢ | £ | ¥ | Cz | ƒ

#### 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.

### Japanese variant

Japanese MSX and MSX2 models used a character set extended from the JIS X 0201 standard (which provided basic single-byte Roman and katakana characters),[3][4] with hiragana, a few common kanji (accessed via the "graph" key), and various geometric symbols assigned to codepoints left undefined in the original standard.

MSX2+ models equipped with the optional Kanji ROM (as well as the MSX TurboR) added full support for double-byte kanji based on JIS X 0208, via the Shift JIS encoding scheme.

MSX Japanese[5]

| 0  | 1  | 2  | 3  | 4  | 5  | 6  | 7  | 8  | 9  | A  | B  | C  | D  | E  | F
0x  | NULL | graph | WB[lower-alpha 1] |  |  | ceol[lower-alpha 2] | WF[lower-alpha 3] | BEEP | BS | TAB | LF | home[lower-alpha 4] | CLS | RET | eol[lower-alpha 5] |
1x  |  |  | INS[lower-alpha 6] |  |  | DL[lower-alpha 7] |  |  | select[lower-alpha 8] |  |  | ESC | ⇨[lower-alpha 9] | ⇦[lower-alpha 10] | ⇧[lower-alpha 11] | ⇩[lower-alpha 12]
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 | [ | ¥ | ] | ^ | [[Underscore|]]
6x  | ` | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o
7x  | p | q | r | s | t | u | v | w | x | y | z | { | | | }  | ~ | DEL
8x  | ♠ | ♥ | ♣ | ♦ | ○ | ● | を | ぁ | ぃ | ぅ | ぇ | ぉ | ゃ | ゅ | ょ | っ
9x  |  | あ | い | う | え | お | か | き | く | け | こ | さ | し | す | せ | そ
Ax  |  | ｡ | ｢ | ｣ | ､ | ･ | ｦ | ｧ | ｨ | ｩ | ｪ | ｫ | ｬ | ｭ | ｮ | ｯ
Bx  | ｰ | ｱ | ｲ | ｳ | ｴ | ｵ | ｶ | ｷ | ｸ | ｹ | ｺ | ｻ | ｼ | ｽ | ｾ | ｿ
Cx  | ﾀ | ﾁ | ﾂ | ﾃ | ﾄ | ﾅ | ﾆ | ﾇ | ﾈ | ﾉ | ﾊ | ﾋ | ﾌ | ﾍ | ﾎ | ﾏ
Dx  | ﾐ | ﾑ | ﾒ | ﾓ | ﾔ | ﾕ | ﾖ | ﾗ | ﾘ | ﾙ | ﾚ | ﾛ | ﾜ | ﾝ | ﾞ | ﾟ
Ex  | た | ち | つ | て | と | な | に | ぬ | ね | の | は | ひ | ふ | へ | ほ | ま
Fx  | み | む | め | も | や | ゆ | よ | ら | り | る | れ | ろ | わ | ん |  | cursor

Unencoded halfwidth variants of hiragana letters.

1. ↑ moves the cursor to the previous word
2. ↑ deletes the line to the right of the cursor
3. ↑ moves the cursor to the next word
4. ↑ places the cursor at top left of the screen
5. ↑ moves the cursor to the end of the line
6. ↑ insert key
7. ↑ deletes the line where the cursor is located
8. ↑ Special key. Its function can vary amongst applications
9. ↑ moves the cursor one character to the right
10. ↑ moves the cursor one character to the left
11. ↑ moves the cursor up
12. ↑ moves the cursor down

MSX Japanese[5]

| 0  | 1  | 2  | 3  | 4  | 5  | 6  | 7  | 8  | 9  | A  | B  | C  | D  | E  | F
4x  | NBSP | 月 | 火 | 水 | 木 | 金 | 土 | 日 | 年 | 円 | 時 | 分 | 秒 | 百 | 千 | 万
5x  | π | ┴ | ┬ | ┤ | ├ | ┼ | │ | ─ | ┌ | ┐ | └ | ┘ | ╳ | 大 | 中 | 小

Unencoded halfwidth variants of kanji characters.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "MSX.TXT", L2/19-025: Proposal to add characters from legacy computers and teletext to the UCS, 2019-01-04, https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2019/19025-terminals-prop.pdf
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 "MSX font". Microcomputer & Related Culture Foundation. 2016-12-16. https://www.msx.org/wiki/MSX_font.
3. ↑ (in ja) JIS X 0201-1997. Japanese Standards Association. 1997-02-28. pp. 17.
4. ↑ Unicode Consortium (2015-12-02). "JIS X 0201 (1976) to Unicode 1.1 Table". http://unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/OBSOLETE/EASTASIA/JIS/JIS0201.TXT.
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 "MSX Technical Data Book" (PDF). 1984. p. 318. https://map.grauw.nl/resources/system/msxtech.pdf.

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Character encodings

Early telecommunications|

* ASCII
* ISO/IEC 646
* ISO/IEC 6937 / ITU T.51
* ITU T.61
* BCDIC
* Baudot code
* Morse code
* Telegraph code
* Wabun code
* Special telegraphy codes
* Non-Latin
* Chinese
* Cyrillic
* Needle telegraph codes

ISO/IEC 8859|

* Approved
* -1
* -2
* -3
* -4
* -5
* -6
* -7
* -8
* -9
* -10
* -11
* -13
* -14
* -15
* -16
* Abandoned
* -12
* Adaptations
* ISO-IR-182
* ISO-IR-200
* ISO-IR-201
* Proposed but not approved
* ISO-IR-111
* ISO-IR-197
* French/Dutch/Turkish draft

Bibliographic use|

* ANSEL
* ISO 5426 / 5426-2 / 5427 / 5428 / 6438 / 6861 / 6862 / 10585 / 10586 / 10754 / 11822
* MARC-8

National standards|

* ArmSCII
* BraSCII
* CNS 11643
* ELOT 927
* GOST 10859
* GB 18030
* HKSCS
* I.S. 434
* ISCII
* JIS X 0201
* JIS X 0208
* JIS X 0212
* JIS X 0213
* KOI-7
* KPS 9566
* KS X 1001
* PASCII
* SI 960
* TIS-620
* TSCII
* VISCII
* VSCII
* YUSCII

ISO/IEC 2022|

* 7-bit
* CN
* CN-EXT
* JP
* JP-EXT
* JP-1
* JP-2
* JP-3
* KR
* ISO/IEC 4873
* ISO/IEC 8859
* ISO/IEC 10367
* Extended Unix Code / EUC
* CN
* KR
* JP
* TW
* CCCII

MacOS code pages
("scripts")|

* Armenian
* Arabic
* Barents Cyrillic
* Celtic
* CentEuro
* ChineseSimp / EUC-CN
* ChineseTrad / Big5
* Croatian
* Cyrillic
* Devanagari
* Dingbats
* Farsi (Persian)
* Gaelic
* Georgian
* Greek
* Gujarati
* Gurmukhi
* Hebrew
* Iceland
* Inuit
* Japanese / ShiftJIS
* Keyboard
* Korean / EUC-KR
* Latin (Kermit)
* Maltese/Esperanto
* Ogham / I.S. 434
* Roman
* Romanian
* Sámi
* Symbol
* Thai / TIS-620
* Turkish
* Turkic Cyrillic
* Ukrainian
* VT100

DOS code pages|

* 100
* 111
* 112
* 113
* 151
* 152
* 161
* 162
* 163
* 164
* 165
* 166
* 210
* 220
* 301
* 437
* 449
* 489
* 620
* 667
* 668
* 707
* 708
* 709
* 710
* 711
* 714
* 715
* 720
* 721
* 737
* 768
* 770
* 771
* 772
* 773
* 774
* 775
* 776
* 777
* 778
* 790
* 850
* 851
* 852
* 853
* 854
* 855/872
* 856
* 857
* 858
* 859
* 860
* 861
* 862
* 863
* 864/17248
* 865
* 866/808
* 867
* 868
* 869
* 874/1161/1162
* 876
* 877
* 878
* 881
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* 883
* 884
* 885
* 891
* 895
* 896
* 897
* 898
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* 900
* 903
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* 909
* 910
* 911
* 926
* 927
* 928
* 929
* 932
* 934
* 936
* 938
* 941
* 942
* 943
* 944
* 946
* 947
* 948
* 949
* 950/1370
* 951
* 966
* 991
* 1034
* 1039
* 1040
* 1041
* 1042
* 1043
* 1044
* 1046
* 1086
* 1088
* 1092
* 1093
* 1098
* 1108
* 1109
* 1114
* 1115
* 1116
* 1117
* 1118
* 1119
* 1125/848
* 1126
* 1127
* 1131/849
* 1139
* 1167
* 1168
* 1300
* 1351
* 1361
* 1362
* 1363
* 1372
* 1373
* 1374
* 1375
* 1380
* 1381
* 1385
* 1386
* 1391
* 1392
* 1393
* 1394
* 57781
* 58152
* 58210
* 58335
* 59234
* 59829
* 60258
* 60853
* 61282
* 62306
* CS Indic
* CSX Indic
* CSX+ Indic
* CWI-2
* Iran System
* Kamenický
* KOI8
* Mazovia
* MIK

IBM AIX code pages|

* 367
* 371
* 806
* 813
* 819
* 895
* 896
* 912
* 913
* 914
* 915
* 916
* 919
* 920
* 921/901
* 922/902
* 923
* 952
* 953
* 954
* 955
* 956
* 957
* 958
* 959
* 960
* 961
* 963
* 964
* 965
* 970
* 971
* 1004
* 1006
* 1008
* 1009
* 1010
* 1011
* 1012
* 1013
* 1014
* 1015
* 1016
* 1017
* 1018
* 1019
* 1029
* 1036
* 1089
* 1111
* 1124
* 1129/1163
* 1133
* 1350
* 1382
* 1383

IBM Apple MacIntosh
emulations|

* 1275
* 1280
* 1281
* 1282
* 1283
* 1284
* 1285
* 1286

IBM Adobe emulations|

* 1038
* 1276
* 1277

IBM DEC emulations|

* 1020
* 1021
* 1023
* 1090
* 1100
* 1101
* 1102
* 1103
* 1104
* 1105
* 1106
* 1107
* 1287
* 1288

IBM HP emulations|

* 1050
* 1051
* 1052
* 1053
* 1054
* 1055
* 1056
* 1057
* 1058

Windows code pages|

* CER-GS
* 874/1162 (TIS-620)
* 932/943 (Shift JIS)
* 936/1386 (GBK)
* 950/1370 (Big5)
* 949/1363 (EUC-KR)
* 1169
* 1174
* Extended Latin-8
* 1200 (UTF-16LE)
* 1201 (UTF-16BE)
* 1250
* 1251
* 1252
* 1253
* 1254
* 1255
* 1256
* 1257
* 1258
* 1261
* 1270
* 54936 (GB18030)
* 65001 (UTF-8)

EBCDIC EBCDIC code pages|

* 1
* 2
* 3
* 4
* 5
* 6
* 7
* 8
* 9
* 10
* 11
* 12
* 13
* 14
* 15
* 16
* 17
* 18
* 19
* 20
* 21
* 22
* 23
* 24
* 25
* 26
* 27
* 28
* 29
* 30
* 31
* 32
* 33
* 34
* 35
* 36
* 37/1140
* 37-2
* 38
* 39
* 40
* 251
* 252
* 254
* 256
* 257
* 258
* 259
* 260
* 264
* 273/1141
* 274
* 275
* 276
* 277/1142
* 278/1143
* 279
* 280/1144
* 281
* 282
* 283
* 284/1145
* 285/1146
* 286
* 287
* 288
* 289
* 290
* 293
* 297/1147
* 298
* 300
* 310
* 320
* 321
* 322
* 330
* 351
* 352
* 353
* 355
* 357
* 358
* 359
* 360
* 361
* 363
* 382
* 383
* 384
* 385
* 386
* 387
* 388
* 389
* 390
* 391
* 392
* 393
* 394
* 395
* 410
* 420/16804
* 421
* 423
* 424/8616/12712
* 425
* 435
* 500/1148
* 803
* 829
* 833
* 834
* 835
* 836
* 837
* 838/1160
* 839
* 870/1110/1153
* 871/1149
* 875/4971/9067
* 880
* 881
* 882
* 883
* 884
* 885
* 886
* 887
* 888
* 889
* 890
* 892
* 893
* 905
* 918
* 924
* 930/1390
* 931
* 933/1364
* 935/1388
* 937/1371
* 939/1399
* 1001
* 1002
* 1003
* 1005
* 1007
* 1024
* 1025/1154
* 1026/1155
* 1027
* 1028
* 1030
* 1031
* 1032
* 1033
* 1037
* 1047
* 1068
* 1069
* 1070
* 1071
* 1073
* 1074
* 1075
* 1076
* 1077
* 1078
* 1079
* 1080
* 1081
* 1082
* 1083
* 1084
* 1085
* 1087
* 1091
* 1097
* 1112/1156
* 1113
* 1122/1157
* 1123/1158
* 1130/1164
* 1132
* 1136
* 1137
* 1150
* 1151
* 1152
* 1159
* 1165
* 1166
* 1278
* 1279
* 1303
* 1364
* 1376
* 1377
* JEF
* KEIS

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
* 7-bit Hebrew
* 8-bit Hebrew
* Special Graphics
* Technical (TCS)

Platform specific|

* Acorn
* Adobe Standard
* Adobe Latin 1
* Amstrad CPC
* Apple I
* Apple II
* Apple III
* ATASCII
* Atari ST
* BICS
* Casio calculators
* CDC
* Compucolor II
* DEC Radix-50
* DEC MCS/NRCS
* DG International
* ELWRO-Junior
* FIELDATA
* GEM
* GEOS
* GSM 03.38
* HP Roman Extension
* HP Roman-8
* HP Roman-9
* HP FOCAL
* HP RPL
* LICS
* LMBCS
* Mattel Aquarius
* Minitel
* MSX
* NEC APC
* NeXT
* OricSCII
* PCW
* PETSCII
* Sega SC-3000
* Sharp calculators
* Sharp MZ
* Sinclair QL
* Teletext
* TI calculators
* TRS-80
* Ventura International
* Ventura Symbol
* Videotex
* WISCII
* XCCS
* ZX80
* ZX81
* ZX Spectrum

Unicode / ISO/IEC 10646|

* UTF-1
* UTF-7
* UTF-8
* UTF-16 (UTF-16LE/UTF-16BE) / UCS-2
* UTF-32 (UTF-32LE/UTF-32BE) / UCS-4
* UTF-EBCDIC
* GB 18030
* BOCU-1
* CESU-8
* SCSU

TeX typesetting system|

* Cork
* LGR
* LY1
* OML
* OMS
* OMX
* OT1
* OT2
* OT3
* OT4
* T2A
* T2B
* T2C
* T2D
* T3
* T4
* T5
* TS1
* TS3
* U
* X2

Miscellaneous code pages|

* ABICOMP
* APL
* 293
* 310 (Graphic Escape)
* 351 (GDDM)
* 907 (OEM)
* ISO-IR-68
* ARIB STD-B24
* HZ
* IEC-P27-1
* INIS
* 7-bit
* 8-bit
* Cyrillic
* ISO-IR-169
* ISO 2033
* Johab
* SEASCII
* Stanford/ITS
* TACE16
* TRON
* UTF-5
* UTF-6
* WTF-8

Related topics|

* Code page
* Control character (C0 C1)
* CCSID
* Character encodings in HTML
* Charset detection
* Han unification
* Hardware
* ISO 6429/IEC 6429/ANSI X3.64
* Mojibake

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