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Chapter —Character Sets and Fonts
UTF-8 Character Set
The UTF-8 (Universal character set Transformation Format-8) was devised
to be a character set which encodes all Unicode characters while maintaining
compatibility with the US-ASCII (0 to 127 dec.) range of characters.
The UTF-8 character set is available from Fingerprint v8.50. UTF-8 data
is encoded with 1, 2, 3 or 4 bytes, depending on the character number
range. The table below shows the UTF-8 binary sequences corresponding
to the Unicode character number. Characters requiring a UTF-8 sequence
of four bytes are currently not supported.
Unicode character number range UTF-8 Byte sequence
Hex range Binary Binary
0000-007F x 7 x 6 x 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 0x 7 x 6 x 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1
0080-07FF y 5 y 4 y 3 y 2 y 1 x 6 x 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1 110y 5 y 4 y 3 y 2 y 1 10x 6 x 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1
0800-FFFF z z z z y y y y y y x x x x x x 4 3 2 1 6 5 4 3 2 1 6 5 4 3 2 1 1110z z z z 10y y y y y y 10x x x x x x 4 3 2 1 6 5 4 3 2 1 6 5 4 3 2 1
010000-
10FFFF
Not currently supported.
The following table outlines the procedure to convert a Unicode character
code in hexadecimal format to the UTF-8 byte decimal value necessary to
print the characters.
Procedure explanation Example
Identify your desired character and its
Unicode Hex value. Identify the range it
belongs to in order to find the number of
bytes necessary for UTF-8 encoding, see
table above.
Cyrillic capital letter ZHE: Ж
Hex value: 0416
0416 is in the range 0080-07FF and
requires thus two bytes to be encoded.
Convert to binary 10000010110
Identify x i and y j bits (and z k if applicable)
as shown in the table above. Start from the
least significant digits to the right and pad
with zeroes to the left if necessary.
Convert the bytes to decimal format and
use these in your print command.
1 1 0 y 5 y 4 y 3 y 2 y 1 1 0 x 6 x 5 x 4 x 3 x 2 x 1
1 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 0 1 1
0
208 150
prtxt chr$(208)+chr$(150)
Note: The conversions between hex-binary-decimal can be done with most
scientific calculators (for example the Windows calculator).
The UTF-8 character set is invoked using NASC 8, NASC "UTF-8" or
NASCD "UTF-8". When selecting UTF-8 with the NASC command, the
font must be selected with the FONT command. Disable UTF-8 encoding
by choosing a different character set with the NASC command.
Use FONTD to select the desired font if you invoke UTF-8 with the
NASCD command. Having selected UTF-8 with the NASCD command,
you must actively disable it with NASCD "" before returning to a singlebyte
character set.
Note: In order to avoid confusion between active character sets and fonts,
it is recommended that you use only the NASC and FONT commands
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