![]() A modified DEC Special Graphics set (with additional fill blocks and arrows, and without the control pictures) accessed in a
Linux terminal using
Shift Out | |
Alias(es) | IBM-1090 |
---|---|
Based on | ASCII |
DEC Special Graphics
[1] is a 7-bit
character set developed by
Digital Equipment Corporation. This was used very often to draw
boxes on the
VT100 video terminal and the many emulators, and used by bulletin board software. The
designation escape sequence ESC ( 0
(
hexadecimal 1B 28 30
) switched the codes for lower-case ASCII letters to draw this set, and the sequence ESC ( B
(hexadecimal 1B 28 42
) switched back.
[2]
IBM calls it Code page 1090.
[3]
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
5x | NBSP | |||||||||||||||
6x | ◆ | ▒ [a] | ␉ | ␌ | ␍ | ␊ | ° | ± |  | ␋ | ┘ | ┐ | ┌ | └ | ┼ | ⎺ |
7x | ⎻ | ─ [b] | ⎼ | ⎽ | ├ | ┤ | ┴ | ┬ | │ | ≤ | ≥ | π | ≠ | £ | · |
![]() A modified DEC Special Graphics set (with additional fill blocks and arrows, and without the control pictures) accessed in a
Linux terminal using
Shift Out | |
Alias(es) | IBM-1090 |
---|---|
Based on | ASCII |
DEC Special Graphics
[1] is a 7-bit
character set developed by
Digital Equipment Corporation. This was used very often to draw
boxes on the
VT100 video terminal and the many emulators, and used by bulletin board software. The
designation escape sequence ESC ( 0
(
hexadecimal 1B 28 30
) switched the codes for lower-case ASCII letters to draw this set, and the sequence ESC ( B
(hexadecimal 1B 28 42
) switched back.
[2]
IBM calls it Code page 1090.
[3]
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
5x | NBSP | |||||||||||||||
6x | ◆ | ▒ [a] | ␉ | ␌ | ␍ | ␊ | ° | ± |  | ␋ | ┘ | ┐ | ┌ | └ | ┼ | ⎺ |
7x | ⎻ | ─ [b] | ⎼ | ⎽ | ├ | ┤ | ┴ | ┬ | │ | ≤ | ≥ | π | ≠ | £ | · |