Working With 8 Bit Character Sets; The Standard Cp/M Plus Character Set (Usa) - AMSTRAD cpc 6128 User Instruction

Working with 8 bit character sets ....
The BASIC character set has 256 different symbols, with the values 128 to 255 (&80
to &FF) containing various graphic symbols of particular use in games and home
computing (dancing men, hearts/clubs/diamonds/spades, etc.). CP/M Plus also has
256 characters available, but the second 128 are different from those in BASIC, and
reflect the International and Business flavour ofthe CP/M Plus environment:
0123456789ABCDEF
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~~~~~~~~II~~~~~~
1
~R.~~I~~~~~~§~2~
2
~~~.~~.~~!~~~~~~
3
D~gB~~IIII~~~~~a
4
~BB&IBE&g~~B~
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5
~gB&~IIHI~~~~~I~
6
~~g~a~~gl~~~~UD~
7
~~~~I~~~~g~I~~~g
Characters 0 to 127 (&00 to & 7F)
012345678.9ABCDEF
8
'!~I~~B~~B~~~~~~~
9
~l!~!!~IH~~~!~!"I~'liji'
A
~!!~~fi.IHln~~~IH~~6jj
B
!E~~~~~~~H~lil1lUII116!!
c
ifi~lilijn!~JIBI~.liHli
D
ii§i1iiiIHI~.iiiil~~~~
E
~1!:i~B~I~~~iiili!iiHHj
F
~iHi.i~~~!if!!ni~iHI~~~
Characters 128 to 255 (&80 to &FF)
The Standard CPIM Plus Character Set (USA)
Software which is capable of operating with 8 bit characters may use this character
set to access all of the foreign language characters at once, without having to
specifically change language. In this way, all the 'bar and brackets' type characters
will be available as well.
Please note that there is currently very little 8-bit software available, and that
characters in the ranges 0 to 31 and 128 to 255 will only ever appear in the form
shown above on the screen itself. Printers, on the other hand, will have their own, and
different, ideas about what these symbols will look like.
Chapter 7 Page 54 For your reference ....