Amstrad CPC character set

The Amstrad CPC character set (alternately known as the BASIC graphics character set)[1] the character set used in the Amstrad CPC series of 8-bit personal computers when running BASIC (the default mode, until it boots into CP/M). This character set existed in the built-in "lower" ROM chip. It is based on ASCII-1967, with the exception of character 0x5E which is the up arrow instead of the circumflex, as it is in ASCII-1963, a feature shared with other character sets of the time [2][3]. Apart from the standard printable ASCII range (0x20-0x7e), it is completely different from the Amstrad CP/M Plus character set. The BASIC character set had symbols of particular use in games and home computing, while the CP/M Plus character reflected the International and Business flavor of the CP/M Plus environment.[4] This character set is represented in Unicode (excluding 0xEF, 0xFC, and 0xFD)[5] as of the March 2020 release of Unicode 13.0, which added symbols for legacy computing.

Character set

Amstrad CPC[6][7][8][lower-alpha 1]
	_0	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7	_8	_9	_A	_B	_C	_D	_E	_F
0_	␀ ◻ 0000	␁ ⎾ 0001	␂ ⏊ 0002	␃ ⏌ 0003	␄ ⚡︎ 0004	␅ ⊠ 0005	␆ ✓ 0006	␇ ⍾ 0007	␈ ← 0008	␉ → 0009	␊ ↓ 000A	␋ ↑ 000B	␌ ↡ 000C	␍ ↲ 000D	␎ ⊗ 000E	␏ ⊙ 000F
1_	␐ ⊟ 0010	␑ ◷ 0011	␒ ◶ 0012	␓ ◵ 0013	␔ ◴ 0014	␕ ⍻ 0015	␖ ⎍ 0016	␗ ⊣ 0017	␘ ⧖ 0018	␙ ⍿ 0019	␚ ␦ 001A	␛ ⊖ 001B	␜ ◰ 001C	␝ ◱ 001D	␞ ◲ 001E	␟ ◳ 001F
2_	␠ 0020	! 0021	" 0022	# 0023	$ 0024	% 0025	& 0026	’ 2019	( 0028	) 0029	* 002A	+ 002B	, 002C	- 002D	. 002E	/ 002F
3_	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_	@ 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_	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	↑ 2191	_ 005F
6_	` 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_	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	␡ 007F
8_	00A0	▘ 2598	▝ 259D	▀ 2580	▖ 2596	▌ 258C	▞ 259E	▛ 259B	▗ 2597	▚ 259A	▐ 2590	▜ 259C	▄ 2584	▙ 2599	▟ 259F	█ 2588
9_	· 00B7	╵ 2575	╶ 2576	└ 2514	╷ 2577	│ 2502	┌ 250C	├ 251C	╴ 2574	┘ 2518	─ 2500	┴ 2534	┐ 2510	┤ 2524	┬ 252C	┼ 253C
A_	^ 005E	´ 00B4	¨ 00A8	£ 00A3	© 00A9	¶ 00B6	§ 00A7	‘ 2018	¼ 00BC	½ 00BD	¾ 00BE	± 00B1	÷ 00F7	¬ 00AC	¿ 00BF	¡ 00A1
B_	α 03B1	β 03B2	γ 03B3	δ 03B4	ε 03B5	θ 03B8	λ 03BB	μ 03BC	π 03C0	σ 03C3	φ 03C6	ψ 03C8	χ 03C7	ω 03C9	Σ 03A3	Ω 03A9
C_	🮠 1FBA0	🮡 1FBA1	🮣 1FBA3	🮢 1FBA2	🮧 1FBA7	🮥 1FBA5	🮦 1FBA6	🮤 1FBA4	🮨 1FBA8	🮩 1FBA9	🮮 1FBAE	╳ 2573	╱ 2571	╲ 2572	🮕 1FB95	▒ 2592
D_	▔ 2594	▕ 2595	▁ 2581	▏ 258F	◤ 25E4	◥ 25E5	◢ 25E2	◣ 25E3	🮎 1FB8E	🮍 1FB8D	🮏 1FB8F	🮌 1FB8C	🮜 1FB9C	🮝 1FB9D	🮞 1FB9E	🮟 1FB9F
E_	☺ 263A	☹ 2639	♣ 2663	♦ 2666	♥ 2665	♠ 2660	○ 25CB	● 25CF	□ 25A1	■ 25A0	♂ 2642	♀ 2640	♩ 2669	♪ 266A	☼ 263C
F_	⭡ 2B61	⭣ 2B63	⭠ 2B60	⭢ 2B62	▲ 25B2	▼ 25BC	▶ 25B6	◀ 25C0	🯆 1FBC6	🯅 1FBC5	🯇 1FBC7	🯈 1FBC8			⭥ 2B65	⭤ 2B64

The control characters normally do not produce a character on screen, but are interpreted as control codes. When using the character 1 (SOH) as a prefix, or with the graphics text, or entered from the keyboard, they are displayed with the representation on the bottom of the cell.[9]

Letter Number Punctuation Symbol Other Undefined No Unicode mapping[5]

Control characters

Each of the characters in the C0 character range (0x00-0x1F) had a special function.[10]

BASIC Control characters
Value (hex)	Value(dec)	Name	Parameter	Locomotive BASIC equivalent	Function
00	0	NUL			No effect. Ignored.
01	1	SOH	0-255		Print the symbol given by the parameter value. This allows the symbols in the range 0 to 31 to be displayed.
02	2	STX		CURSOR 0	Turn off text cursor.
03	3	ETX		CURSOR 1	Turn on text cursor.
04	4	EOT	0-2	MODE	Set screen mode.
05	5	ENQ	0-255		Send the parameter character to the graphics cursor.
06	6	ACK			Enable Text Screen (see NAK)
07	7	BEL			Sound Bleeper. Note that this flushes the sound queues.
08	8	BS			Move cursor back one character.[lower-alpha 1]
09	9	TAB			Move cursor forward one character.[lower-alpha 1]
0A	10	LF			Move cursor down one line.[lower-alpha 1]
0B	11	VT			Move cursor up one line.[lower-alpha 1]
0C	12	FF		CLS	Clear text window and move cursor to top left corner.
0D	13	CR			Move cursor to left edge of window on current line.[lower-alpha 1]
0E	14	SO	0-15	PAPER	Set Paper Ink.
0F	15	SI	0-15	PEN	Set Pen Ink.
10	16	DLE			Delete current character.[lower-alpha 1]
11	17	DC1			Clear from left edge of window to, and including, the current character position.[lower-alpha 1]
12	18	DC2			Clear from, and including, the current character position to the right edge of window.[lower-alpha 1]
13	19	DC3			Clear from start of window to, and including, the current character position.[lower-alpha 1]
14	20	DC4			Clear from, and including, the current character position to the end of window.[lower-alpha 1]
15	21	NAK			Turn off text screen. The screen will not react to anything sent to it until after an ACK is sent.
16	22	SYN	0-1		Set transparency (0 disables, 1 enables)
17	23	ETB	0-3		Set graphics ink mode. 0 normal (overwrite), 1 XOR, 2 AND, 3 OR
18	24	CAN			Exchange Pen and Paper Inks, effectively applying the reverse video effect.
19	25	EM	0-255 (9 times)	SYMBOL	Set the matrix for user definable character. The first parameter specifies which character's matrix to set. The next eight specify the matrix.
1A	26	SUB	1-80, 1-80, 1-25, 1-25	WINDOW	Set Window. The parameters specify left, right, top and bottom edges of the window.
1B	27	ESC			No effect. Ignored.
1C	28	FS	0-15, 0-31, 0-31	INK	Set Ink to a pair of colors. The first parameter specifies the Ink, the next two the required colors. [lower-alpha 2]
1D	29	GS	0-31, 0-31	BORDER	Set Border to a pair of colors. Equivalent to a BORDER command. The two parameters specify the two colors.[lower-alpha 2]
1E	30	RS			Move cursor to top left hand corner of window.
1F	31	US	1-80, 1-25	LOCATE	Move cursor to the given position in the current window. The first parameter gives the column to move to, the second gives the line.

The codes marked force the cursor to a legal position in the current window before they are obeyed - but may leave the cursor in an illegal position
Parameter values 27 to 31 are un-defined colors.

References

"Chapter 7: For your reference ...." (PDF), Amstrad CPC 6128 User Instructions, 1985, p. 9
ZX Spectrum character set
PETSCII
"Chapter 7: For your reference ...." (PDF), Amstrad CPC 6128 User Instructions, 1985, p. 54
"Character Not Proposed" (PDF), L2/19-025: Sources, 2019-01-04
"AMSCPC.TXT", L2/19-025: Proposal to add characters from legacy computers and teletext to the UCS (PDF), 2019-01-04
L2/19-025: Sources (PDF), 2019-01-04
"Chapter 7: For your reference ...." (PDF), Amstrad CPC 6128 User Instructions, 1985, pp. 9–20
Godden, Bruce; Overell, Paul; Radisic, David (1986), "Appendix VI: Displayed Character Set", CPC464/664/6128 FIRMWARE, Amstrad Consumer Electronics, p. 431
"Chapter 7: For your reference ...." (PDF), Amstrad CPC 6128 User Instructions, 1985, pp. 3–6

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[10] The control characters normally do not produce a character on screen, but are interpreted as control codes. When using the character 1 (SOH) as a prefix, or with the graphics text, or entered from the keyboard, they are displayed with the representation on the bottom of the cell.[9]

[cursor-12] The codes marked force the cursor to a legal position in the current window before they are obeyed - but may leave the cursor in an illegal position

[controlink-13] Parameter values 27 to 31 are un-defined colors.

[1] "Chapter 7: For your reference ...." (PDF), Amstrad CPC 6128 User Instructions, 1985, p. 9

[2] ZX Spectrum character set

[3] PETSCII

[4] "Chapter 7: For your reference ...." (PDF), Amstrad CPC 6128 User Instructions, 1985, p. 54

[NotProposed-5] "Character Not Proposed" (PDF), L2/19-025: Sources, 2019-01-04

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

[7] L2/19-025: Sources (PDF), 2019-01-04

[8] "Chapter 7: For your reference ...." (PDF), Amstrad CPC 6128 User Instructions, 1985, pp. 9–20

[9] Godden, Bruce; Overell, Paul; Radisic, David (1986), "Appendix VI: Displayed Character Set", CPC464/664/6128 FIRMWARE, Amstrad Consumer Electronics, p. 431

[11] "Chapter 7: For your reference ...." (PDF), Amstrad CPC 6128 User Instructions, 1985, pp. 3–6

Character encodings
Early telecommunications	Telegraph code Needle Morse Non-Latin Wabun/Kana Chinese Cyrillic Korean Baudot and Murray FIELDATA ASCII ISO/IEC 646 BCDIC 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	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 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 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	100 111 112 113 151 152 161 162 163 164 165 166 210 220 301 437 449 489 620 667 668 707 708 709 710 711 714 715 720 721 737 768 770 771 772 773 774 775 776 777 778 790 850 851 852 853 854 855/872 856 857 858 859 860 861 862 863 864 865 866/808 867 868 869 874/1161/1162 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 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) Armenian Cyrillic + Finnish Cyrillic + French Cyrillic + German Georgian Polytonic Greek 65001 (UTF-8)
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 298 300 310 320 321 322 330 351 352 353 355 357 358 359 360 361 363 382 383 384 385 386 387 388 389 390 391 392 393 394 395 410 420 421 423 424 425 435 500/1148 803 829 833 834 835 836 837 838/1160 839 870/1110/1153 871/1149 875 880 881 882 883 884 885 886 887 888 889 890 892 893 905 918 924 930/1390 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 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 LICS LMBCS Mattel Aquarius Minitel MSX NEC APC NeXT OricSCII PCW PETSCII Sega SC-3000 Sharp calculators Sharp MZ Sinclair QL SQUOZE 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 SEASCII Stanford/ITS TACE16 TRON UTF-5 UTF-6 WTF-8
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