I know of distinct VIC keyboard for English, Japanese, Danish, and Swedish/Finnish. The roms are available on Zimmer's ftp archives. I have also seen screen images of a Spansih keyboard.
I want to know if any effort has been made to document the code differences (character and PETSCII numbers) and if there are any other known variation. Am I missing any? Did the French SECAM have a different keyboard? Does anyone here have a variant with the relevant numbers?
Keyboards around the World
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I generated a Unicode mapping table for the VIC-1001 character set
https://github.com/irmen/cbmcodecs2/blo ... 1jp_kk.txt
I'd be happy to do the same for other variants but some other representation would probably be more readable.
https://github.com/irmen/cbmcodecs2/blo ... 1jp_kk.txt
I'd be happy to do the same for other variants but some other representation would probably be more readable.
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Thanks! I knew I saw it somewhere before. I also have the archived 1001 user manual; it's very thorough. I could probably guess assignments from pictures of the other regional keyboards, but I suppose the numbers of exisiting units are so small . . .
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I found the PETSCII table in the VIC-1001 manual inaccurate in places, I had to go through the entire character set manually to cross-check.
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I'm finding several conflicting versions now. Is this one wrong too?
https://www.pagetable.com/c64ref/charset/
Your explication uses approximate pronunciation (romanji) that may not be accurate, so I want to go by the actual written characters.
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Interesting, I didn't realize you could switch variants on this page. I'll try and find my notes and compare against my findings.Jeff-20 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 17, 2022 6:36 pm I'm finding several conflicting versions now. Is this one wrong too?
https://www.pagetable.com/c64ref/charset/
I used the official Unicode naming from https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/block/U+30A0 but it's entirely possible I used the wrong symbol as I'm unable to read or write Japanese at all.Your explication uses approximate pronunciation (romanji) that may not be accurate, so I want to go by the actual written characters.
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I think the pagetable charts are also wrong. For example, in the chart called "Japanese upper-Kanji (VIC-20)" the PETSCII character at $B2 (178) is the normal box drawing symbol. If I run VICE as a VIC-1001 I get "イ" (Katakana Letter I, U+30A4).
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Thanks for checking. I will see what other information I can find. I know a few people here owned the actual hardware.