Ventura International Explained

Ventura International (or VENTURA_INT) is an 8-bit character encoding created by Ventura Software for use with Ventura Publisher. Ventura International is based on the GEM character set, but ¢ and ø are swapped and ¥ and Ø are swapped so that it is more similar to code page 437 (on which GEM was based, but GEM is more similar to code page 865 because the placement of Ø and ø in GEM match the placement in code page 865). There is also the PCL Ventura International, which is used for communication with PCL printers. PCL Ventura International is based on HP Roman-8. Both have the same character set, but a different encoding.

Conversion tables

Ventura International → PCL Ventura International (upper half only; lower half is identical)
 _0_1_2_3_4_5_6_7_8_9_A_B_C_D_E_F
8_B4CFC5C0CCC8D4B5C1CDC9DDD1D9D8D0
9_DCD7D3C2CECAC3CBEFDADBBFBBBCBABE
A_C4D5C6C7B7B6F9FAB9B1B2ABACB8FBFD
B_E2EAD2D6F1F0A1E1E9BDF4F3F2A8A9AA
C_A0FFB0FCF6F5B3E0A2A3A4A5E6E5A6A7
D_E8E7DFEBECADEDAEEEDE      
E_                
F_                
PCL Ventura International → Ventura International (upper half only; lower half is identical)
 _0_1_2_3_4_5_6_7_8_9_A_B_C_D_E_F
8_                
9_                
A_C0B6C8C9CACBCECFBDBEBFABACD5D7 
B_C2A9AAC68087A5A4ADA89E9C9DB99F9B
C_83889396A082A2A3858A959784899481
D_8F8CB29286A1B3918E8D999A908BD9D2
E_C7B7B0  CDCCD1D0B8B1D3D4D6D898
F_B5B4BCBBBAC5C4  A6A7AEC3AF C1

Code page 898

Code page 898 is an adaptation of code page 437 which moves some characters around like Ventura International does for multilingual word processing.[1]

Each character appears with its equivalent Unicode code-point. Note that the section sign and the space have two representations.[2]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: IBM i Globalization: Code pages. https://web.archive.org/web/20120716195651/http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/i/software/globalization/codepages.html . 2012-07-16 .
  2. Web site: Code Page 898. https://web.archive.org/web/20130121104730/http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/resources/systems_i_software_globalization_pdf_cp00898z.pdf. 2013-01-21.

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