ABICOMP character set

The ABICOMP Character Set was an encoded repertoire of characters used in Brazil.[1] It was devised and named after Associação Brasileira de Indústria de Computadores, a Brazilian computer industry association defunct in 1992.[2] It was adopted by Brazilian-made computers and several printers brands.[3][4][5] This code page is known on Star printers and FreeDOS as Code page 3848.

ABICOMP was different from the Brazilian standard BraSCII (very similar to ISO 8859-1).[6] Although once widely used in Brazil, the character lost popularity due to of the ubiquity of other character sets like ISO 8859-1 and later Unicode.

Coverage

The ABICOMP character set primarily contained characters to cover the Portuguese language. It also contained characters for other languages such as Spanish, French, Italian and German. However, the quotation marks "«" and "»" used on European Portuguese, European Spanish, French and Italian are missing.

Character set

ABICOMP
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
0x
1x
2x  SP !"#$%&'()*+,-./
3x 0123456789:;<=>?
4x @ABCDEFGHIJKLMNO
5x PQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_
6x `abcdefghijklmno
7x pqrstuvwxyz{|}~
8x
9x
Ax NBSPÀ00C0Á00C1Â00C2Ã00C3Ä00C4Ç00C7È00C8É00C9Ê00CAË00CBÌ00CCÍ00CDÎ00CEÏ00CFÑ00D1
Bx Ò00D2Ó00D3Ô00D4Õ00D5Ö00D6Œ0152Ù00D9Ú00DAÛ00DBÜ00DCŸ0178¨00A8£00A3¦00A6§00A7°00B0
Cx ¡00A1à00E0á00E1â00E2ã00E3ä00E4ç00E7è00E8é00E9ê00EAë00EBì00ECí00EDî00EEï00EFñ00F1
Dx ò00F2ó00F3ô00F4õ00F5ö00F6œ0153ù00F9ú00FAû00FBü00FCÿ00FFß00DFª00AAº00BA¿00BF±00B1
Ex
Fx

References

  1. ^OKIPOS 425 D Developer's Guide. Oki Data, Americas, Inc. 2021. pp. 6.2.2.7 Abicomp. Archived from the original on 26 July 2021.
  2. ^Carvalho; Cukierman; Marques. A batalha dos protocolos de redes de computadores localizada (no Brasil) no final do Século XX(PDF). Archived from the original(PDF) on 15 December 2017.
  3. ^Epson Stylus Color 200 User's guide. Epson America, Inc. 1996. pp. B-5.
  4. ^STAR LC-8021 USER'S MANUAL. Star Micronics Co., Ltd. 1997. p. 58.
  5. ^Brother Laser Printer User's Guide(PDF). p. 132.
  6. ^OKIPOS 426S User's Guide. Oki Data. 2012. p. 90.
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