An eight-segment display is a type of display based on eight segments that can be turned on or off according to the font pattern to be produced.
One application was in the Sharp EL-8, an early electronic calculator. The eight-segment display produces more rounded digits than a seven-segment display, yielding a more "script-like" output, with the trade-off that fewer possible alphabetic characters can be displayed because the bars F and G are merged (see table below).
An eight segment display can sometimes display alphabetic characters with less readability because the segments F and G are combined and the corners are rounded. The asymmetrical layout of the elements produced a distinctive "handwritten" digit style, with a half-height "0".
| Latin | C, c, d, G, L, N, n, 0, o, r, U, Z, Ə |
| Greek | Γ, Ζ, Ν, Ξ, Ο, ο, Π, π |
| Cyrillic | Г, г, д, П, п, Э |
| Others | 0, ([, ", ^, -, /, ?
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|C, [, (|E
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|c, L, r, г
|t
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|d, U
|[[Ɐ]]|-|G|6|-|N, Ν, λ, Π, П|A|-|n, π, п|h|-|o, ο|b|-|Z, Ζ,|e|-|0, O, Ə, Ο, д|8|-|Γ, Г|F|-|Ξ|C̠|-|Э|9|-|"|˅|-|^|°|-| -|`|-|/|μ|-|?|P|}See also |