ABICOMP character set

The ABICOMP Character Set was an encoded repertoire of characters used in Brazil. It was devised by the extinct Associação Brasileira de Indústria de Computadores, a Brazilian computer industry association. It was used on Brazilian-made computers and several printers brands.^[1][2][3]

Coverage

The ABICOMP Character Set obviously contained the characters to cover Portuguese. It also contained characters to cover other languages such as Spanish, French, Italian and German. It should be noted, however, that the quotation marks “«” and “»” for (European) Portuguese, (European) Spanish, French and Italian are missing.

This character set^[4] was different from the Brazilian Standard (BraSCII — Brazilian Standard Code for Information Interchange) which was just a copy of ISO 8859-1.^[5] Although once very used in Brazil, this character set became less and less used because of the ubiquity of other character sets (ISO 8859-1 and later Unicode).

Layout

Legend:

Alphabetic   Control character   Numeric digit   Punctuation

Extended punctuation   Graphic character   International   Undefined

ABICOMP

ABICOMP

	_0	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7	_8	_9	_A	_B	_C	_D	_E	_F
0_
1_
2_	SP 0020 32	! 0021 33	" 0022 34	# 0023 35	$ 0024 36	% 0025 37	& 0026 38	' 0027 39	( 0028 40	) 0029 41	* 002A 42	+ 002B 43	, 002C 44	- 002D 45	. 002E 46	/ 002F 47
3_	0 0030 48	1 0031 49	2 0032 50	3 0033 51	4 0034 52	5 0035 53	6 0036 54	7 0037 55	8 0038 56	9 0039 57	: 003A 58	; 003B 59	< 003C 60	= 003D 61	> 003E 62	? 003F 63
4_	@ 0040 64	A 0041 65	B 0042 66	C 0043 67	D 0044 68	E 0045 69	F 0046 70	G 0047 71	H 0048 72	I 0049 73	J 004A 74	K 004B 75	L 004C 76	M 004D 77	N 004E 78	O 004F 79
5_	P 0050 80	Q 0051 81	R 0052 82	S 0053 83	T 0054 84	U 0055 85	V 0056 86	W 0057 87	X 0058 88	Y 0059 89	Z 005A 90	[ 005B 91	\ 005C 92	] 005D 93	^ 005E 94	_ 005F 95
6_	` 0060 96	a 0061 97	b 0062 98	c 0063 99	d 0064 100	e 0065 101	f 0066 102	g 0067 103	h 0068 104	i 0069 105	j 006A 106	k 006B 107	l 006C 108	m 006D 109	n 006E 110	o 006F 111
7_	p 0070 112	q 0071 113	r 0072 114	s 0073 115	t 0074 116	u 0075 117	v 0076 118	w 0077 119	x 0078 120	y 0079 121	z 007A 122	{ 007B 123	| 007C 124	} 007D 125	~ 007E 126
8_
9_
A_	NBSP 00A0 160	À 00C0 161	Á 00C1 162	Â 00C2 163	Ã 00C3 164	Ä 00C4 165	Ç 00C7 166	È 00C8 167	É 00C9 168	Ê 00CA 169	Ë 00CB 170	Ì 00CC 171	Í 00CD 172	Î 00CE 173	Ï 00CF 174	Ñ 00D1 175
B_	Ò 00D2 176	Ó 00D3 177	Ô 00D4 178	Õ 00D5 179	Ö 00D6 180	Œ 0152 181	Ù 00D9 182	Ú 00DA 183	Û 00DB 184	Ü 00DC 185	Ÿ 0178 186		£ 00A3 188	¦ 00A6 189	§ 00A7 190	° 00B0 191
C_	¡ 00A1 192	à 00E0 193	á 00E1 194	â 00E2 195	ã 00E3 196	ä 00E4 197	ç 00E7 198	è 00E8 199	é 00E9 200	ê 00EA 201	ë 00EB 202	ì 00EC 203	í 00ED 204	î 00EE 205	ï 00EF 206	ñ 00F1 207
D_	ò 00F2 208	ó 00F3 209	ô 00F4 210	õ 00F5 211	ö 00F6 212	œ 0153 213	ù 00F9 214	ú 00FA 215	û 00FB 216	ü 00FC 217	ÿ 00FF 218	ß 00DF 219	ª 00AA 220	º 00BA 221	¿ 00BF 222	± 00B1 177
E_
F_
	_0	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7	_8	_9	_A	_B	_C	_D	_E	_F

References

1. Epson Stylus Color 200 User Guide
2. Star LC 8021 User's Manual
3. Brother HL-2135W Symbol and character sets list
4. OkiPOS425D Developer's Guide ABICOMP Code Table
5. OkiPOS425D Developer's Guide BraSCII Code Table