MSX character set

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 VT-52 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
0_ 0	NULL 0000	graph	WB[lower-alpha 1]			ceol[lower-alpha 2]	WF[lower-alpha 3]	BEEP 0007	BS 0008	TAB 0009	LF 000A	home[lower-alpha 4]	CLS	RET 000D	eol[lower-alpha 5]
1_ 16			INS[lower-alpha 6]			DL[lower-alpha 7]			select[lower-alpha 8]			ESC 001B	⇨[lower-alpha 9]	⇦[lower-alpha 10]	⇧[lower-alpha 11]	⇩[lower-alpha 12]
2_ 32	SP 0020	! 0021	" 0022	# 0023	$ 0024	% 0025	& 0026	' 0027	( 0028	) 0029	* 002A	+ 002B	, 002C	- 002D	. 002E	/ 002F
3_ 48	0 0030	1 0031	2 0032	3 0033	4 0034	5 0035	6 0036	7 0037	8 0038	9 0039	: 003A	; 003B	< 003C	= 003D	> 003E	? 003F
4_ 64	@ 0040	A 0041	B 0042	C 0043	D 0044	E 0045	F 0046	G 0047	H 0048	I 0049	J 004A	K 004B	L 004C	M 004D	N 004E	O 004F
5_ 80	P 0050	Q 0051	R 0052	S 0053	T 0054	U 0055	V 0056	W 0057	X 0058	Y 0059	Z 005A	[ 005B	\ 005C	] 005D	^ 005E	_ 005F
6_ 96	` 0060	a 0061	b 0062	c 0063	d 0064	e 0065	f 0066	g 0067	h 0068	i 0069	j 006A	k 006B	l 006C	m 006D	n 006E	o 006F
7_ 112	p 0070	q 0071	r 0072	s 0073	t 0074	u 0075	v 0076	w 0077	x 0078	y 0079	z 007A	{ 007B	\| 007C	} 007D	~ 007E	DEL 007F
8_ 128	Ç 00C7	ü 00FC	é 00E9	â 00E2	ä 00E4	à 00E0	å 00E5	ç 00E7	ê 00EA	ë 00EB	è 00E8	ï 00EF	î 00EE	ì 00EC	Ä 00C4	Å 00C5
9_ 144	É 00C9	æ 00E6	Æ 00C6	ô 00F4	ö 00F6	ò 00F2	û 00FB	ù 00F9	ÿ 00FF	Ö 00D6	Ü 00DC	¢ 00A2	£ 00A3	¥ 00A5	₧ 20A7	ƒ 0192
A_ 160	á 00E1	í 00ED	ó 00F3	ú 00FA	ñ 00F1	Ñ 00D1	ª 00AA	º 00BA	¿ 00BF	⌐ 2310	¬ 00AC	½ 00BD	¼ 00BC	¡ 00A1	« 00AB	» 00BB
B_ 176	Ã 00C3	ã 00E3	Ĩ 0128	ĩ 0129	Õ 00D5	õ 00F5	Ũ 0168	ũ 0169	Ĳ 0132	ĳ 0133	¾ 00BE	∽ 223D	◊ 25CA	‰ 2030	¶ 00B6	§ 00A7
C_ 192	▂ 2582	▚ 259A	▆ 2586	🮂 1FB82	▬ 25AC	🮅 1FB85	▎ 258E	▞ 259E	▊ 258A	🮇 1FB87	🮊 1FB8A	🮙 1FB99	🮘 1FB98	🭭 1FB6D	🭯 1FB6F	🭬 1FB6C
D_ 208	🭮 1FB6E	🮚 1FB9A	🮛 1FB9B	▘ 2598	▗ 2597	▝ 259D	▖ 2596	🮖 1FB96	Δ 0394	‡ 2021	ω 03C9	█ 2588	▄ 2584	▌ 258C	▐ 2590	▀ 2580
E_ 224	α 03B1	ß 00DF	Γ 0393	π 03C0	Σ 03A3	σ 03C3	µ 00B5	τ 03C4	Φ 03A6	Θ 0398	Ω 03A9	δ 03B4	∞ 221E	⌀ 2300	∈ 2208	∩ 2229
F_ 240	≡ 2261	± 00B1	≥ 2265	≤ 2264	⌠ 2320	⌡ 2321	÷ 00F7	≈ 2248	° 00B0	∙ 2219	· 00B7	√ 221A	ⁿ 207F	² 00B2	■ 25A0	cursor

Letter Number Punctuation Symbol Other Undefined

moves the cursor to the previous word
deletes the line to the right of the cursor
moves the cursor to the next word
places the cursor at top left of the screen
moves the cursor to the end of the line
insert key
deletes the line where the cursor is located
Special key. Its function can vary amongst applications
moves the cursor one character to the right
moves the cursor one character to the left
moves the cursor up
moves the cursor down

MSX International[1][2]
	_0	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7	_8	_9	_A	_B	_C	_D	_E	_F
014_ 320	NBSP 00A0	☺ 263A	☻ 263B	♥ 2665	♦ 2666	♣ 2663	♠ 2660	• 2022	◘ 25D8	○ 25CB	◙ 25D9	♂ 2642	♀ 2640	♪ 266A	♫ 266B	☼ 263C
015_ 336	⟊ 27CA	┴ 2534	┬ 252C	┤ 2524	├ 251C	┼ 253C	│ 2502	─ 2500	┌ 250C	┐ 2510	└ 2514	┘ 2518	╳ 2573	╱ 2571	╲ 2572	🮯 1FBAF

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
8_ 128	Ç 00C7	ü 00FC	é 00E9	â 00E2	Á 00C1	à 00E0	¨ 00A8	ç 00E7	ê 00EA	Í 00CD	Ó 00D3	Ú 00DA	Â 00C2	Ê 00CA	Ô 00D4	À 00C0
9_ 144	É 00C9	æ 00E6	Æ 00C6	ô 00F4	ö 00F6	ò 00F2	û 00FB	ù 00F9	ÿ 00FF	Ö 00D6	Ü 00DC	¢ 00A2	£ 00A3	¥ 00A5	Cz 0043 007A	ƒ 0192

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.

References

"MSX.TXT", L2/19-025: Proposal to add characters from legacy computers and teletext to the UCS (PDF), 2019-01-04
Rderooy; Tvalenca; Gdx (2016-12-16). "MSX font". Microcomputer & Related Culture Foundation. Archived from the original on 2017-07-24. Retrieved 2017-07-24.

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[3] ves the cursor to the previous word

[4] tes the line to the right of the cursor

[5] ves the cursor to the next word

[6] s the cursor at top left of the screen

[7] ves the cursor to the end of the line

[8] sert key

[9] tes the line where the cursor is located

[10] Special key. Its function can vary amongst applications

[11] ves the cursor one character to the right

[12] ves the cursor one character to the left

[13] ves the cursor up

[14] ves the cursor down

[msxtxt-1] "MSX.TXT", L2/19-025: Proposal to add characters from legacy computers and teletext to the UCS (PDF), 2019-01-04

[msx-2] Rderooy; Tvalenca; Gdx (2016-12-16). "MSX font". Microcomputer & Related Culture Foundation. Archived from the original on 2017-07-24. Retrieved 2017-07-24.

Character encodings
Early telecommunications	Telegraph code Needle Morse Non-Latin Wabun/Kana Chinese Cyrillic Korean Baudot and Murray FIELDATA ASCII ISO/IEC 646 BCDIC 353 355 357 358 359 360 EBCDIC Teletex and Videotex/Teletext ISO/IEC 6937 / ITU T.51 ITU T.61 ITU T.101 World System Teletext background sets
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	MARC-8 ANSEL CCCII/EACC ISO 5426 / 5426-2 / 5427 / 5428 / 6438 / 6861 / 6862 / 10585 / 10586 / 10754 / 11822
National standards	ArmSCII BraSCII CNS 11643 ELOT 927 GOST 10859 GB 2312 GB 12052 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 KS X 1002 LST 1284 LST 1564 LST 1590-1 LST 1590-2 LST 1590-3 LST 1590-4 PASCII RUSCII 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
Mac OS code pages ("scripts")	Armenian Arabic Barents Cyrillic Celtic CentEuro ChineseSimp / EUC-CN ChineseTrad / Big5 Croatian Cyrillic Devanagari / ISCII Dingbats Farsi (Persian) Gaelic Georgian Greek Gujarati / ISCII Gurmukhi / ISCII Hebrew Iceland Inuit Japanese / Shift JIS 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	100 111 112 113 151 152 161 162 163 164 165 166 210 220 301 437 449 489 620 667 668 707 708 709 710 711 714 715 720 721 737 768 770 771 772 773 774 775 776 777 778 790 850 851 852 853 854 855/872 856 857 858 859 860 861 862 863 864 865 866/808 867 868 869 874/1161/1162 876 877 878 881 882 883 884 885 891 895 896 897 898 899 900 903 904 906 907 909 910 911 926 927 928 929 932 934 936 938 941 942 943 944 946 947 948 949 950/1370 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 3012 3021 3843 3844 3845 3846 3847 3848 30000 30001 30002 30003 30004 30005 30006 30007 30008 30009 30010 30011 30012 30013 30014 30015 30016 30017 30018 30019 30020 30021 30022 30023 30024 30025 30026 30027 30028 30029 30030 30031 30032 30033 30034 30039 30040 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 code pages for other vendors' encodings	Apple Macintosh 1275 1280 1281 1282 1283 1284 1285 1286 Adobe 1038 1276 1277 DEC 1020 1021 1023 1090 1100 1101 1102 1103 1104 1105 1106 1107 1287 1288 HP 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) Armenian Cyrillic + Finnish Cyrillic + French Cyrillic + German Polytonic Greek 65001 (UTF-8)
Microsoft code pages for other vendors' encodings	Apple Macintosh 10000 10001 10002 10003 10004 10005 10006 10007 10008 10010 10017 10021 10029 10079 10081 10082
EBCDIC code pages	37 390 391 392 393 394 395 435 829 834 835 837 839 881 882 883 884 885 886 887 888 889 890 931 933/1364 935/1388 937/1371 939/1399 1001 1003 1005 1007 1024 1027 1028 1030 1031 1032 1033 1037 1068 1071 1073 1074 1075 1076 1077 1078 1080 1082 1083 1085 1087 1091 1136 1150 1151 1152 1278 1279 1303 1364 1376 1377
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 CP/M+ 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 IBM SQUOZE 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 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 IL1 IL2 IL3 L7X LGR LY1 OML OMS OMX OT1 OT2 OT3 OT4 PL0 QX 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 Mojikyō SEASCII Stanford/ITS TACE16 TRON UTF-5 UTF-6 WTF-8
Control and nonprinting character sets	Morse prosigns C0 and C1 control codes ISO/IEC 6429 / ANSI X3.64 / ECMA-48 / JIS X 0211 ISO 6630 DIN 31626 JIS X 0207 ITU T.101 C0 C1 EBCDIC control codes Unicode control, format and separator characters Whitespace characters
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