Short description: Set of characters used in the Apple II text mode

Apple II text mode uses the 7-bit ASCII (us-ascii) character set. The high-bit is set to display in normal mode on the 40x24 text screen.

## Contents

* 1 Character sets
* 1.1 Apple II / Apple II plus
* 1.2 Apple IIe
* 1.3 Apple IIc
* 1.4 Apple IIc alternate
* 1.5 Apple IIGS
* 2 References
* 3 External links

## Character sets

### Apple II / Apple II plus

The original Signetics 2513 character generator chip has 64 glyphs for upper case, numbers, symbols, and punctuation characters. Each 5x7 pixel bitmap matrix is displayed in a 7x8 character cell on the text screen. The 64 characters can be displayed in INVERSE in the range $00 to $3F, FLASHing in the range $40 to $7F, and NORMAL mode in the range $80 to $FF. Normal mode characters are repeated in the $80 to $FF range.

To display lowercase letters, applications can run in the graphics modes and use custom fonts, rather than running in text mode using the font in ROM.

### Apple IIe

| 0  | 1  | 2  | 3  | 4  | 5  | 6  | 7  | 8  | 9  | A  | B  | C  | D  | E  | F
SP | ! | "  | # | $ | % | & | ' | ( | ) | * | + | ,  | - | . | /
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | : | ; | < | {{{2}}} | > | ?
@ | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o
p | q | r | s | t | u | v | w | x | y | z | [ | \ | ] | ^ |
NBSP | ╵ | ╴ | ╷ | ╶ | ┘ | ┐ | ┌ | └ | ─ | │ | ┴ | ┤ | ┬ | ├ | ┼
◤ | ◥ | ▒ | ▘ | ▝ | ▀ | ▖ | ▗ | ▚ | ▌ |  |  | ← | ↑ | → | ↓
` | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O
P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | { | | | }  | ~ |

### Apple IIc

| 0  | 1  | 2  | 3  | 4  | 5  | 6  | 7  | 8  | 9  | A  | B  | C  | D  | E  | F
@ | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O
P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | [ | \ | ] | ^ | _
| ! | " | # | $ | % | & | ' | ( | ) | * | + | , | - | . | /
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | : | ; | < | = | > | ?
@ | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O
P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | [ | \ | ] | ^ | _
| ! | " | # | $ | % | & | ' | ( | ) | * | + | , | - | . | /
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | : | ; | < | = | > | ?
@ | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O
P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | [ | \ | ] | ^ |
SP | ! | " | # | $ | % | & | ' | ( | ) | * | + | ,  | - | . | /
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | : | ; | < | {{{2}}} | > | ?
@ | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O
P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | [ | \ | ] | ^ |
SP | ! | " | # | $ | % | & | ' | ( | ) | * | + | ,  | - | . | /
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | : | ; | < | {{{2}}} | > | ?

### Apple IIc alternate

| 0  | 1  | 2  | 3  | 4  | 5  | 6  | 7  | 8  | 9  | A  | B  | C  | D  | E  | F
NUL | SOH | STX | ETX | EOT | ENQ | ACK | BEL | BS | HT | LF | VT | FF | CR | SO | SI
DLE | DC1 | DC2 | DC3 | DC4 | NAK | SYN | ETB | CAN | EM | SUB | ESC | FS | GS | RS | US
SP | ! | "  | # | $ | % | & | ' | ( | ) | * | + | ,  | - | . | /
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | : | ; | < | = | > | ?
@ | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O
P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | [ | £ | ] | ^ |
` | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o
p | q | r | s | t | u | v | w | x | y | z | { | \ | ] | ~ | DEL
@ | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O
P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | [ | \ | ] | ^ | _
| ! | " | # | $ | % | & | ' | ( | ) | * | + | , | - | . | /
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | : | ; | < | = | > | ?
[lower-alpha 1] |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
` | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o
p | q | r | s | t | u | v | w | x | y | z | { | | | } | ~ | DEL

1. ↑ The character 0xF0 is a solid Apple logo. Apple uses U+F8FF in the Corporate Private Use Area for this logo, but it is usually not supported on non-Apple platforms.

### Apple IIGS

Apple II MouseText character set[1]

| 0  | 1  | 2  | 3  | 4  | 5  | 6  | 7  | 8  | 9  | A  | B  | C  | D  | E  | F
@ | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O
P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | [ | \ | ] | ^ | _
| ! | " | # | $ | % | & | ' | ( | ) | * | + | , | - | . | /
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | : | ; | < | = | > | ?
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
|  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
` | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o
p | q | r | s | t | u | v | w | x | y | z | { | | | } | ~ |
@ | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O
P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | [ | \ | ] | ^ |
SP | ! | "  | # | $ | % | & | ' | ( | ) | * | + | ,  | - | . | /
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | : | ; | < | = | > | ?
@ | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O
P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | [ | \ | ] | ^ |
` | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o
p | q | r | s | t | u | v | w | x | y | z | { | | | }  | ~ |

## References

1. ↑ "Apple II MouseText to Unicode Mapping". https://www.kreativekorp.com/charset/map/mousetext/.

## External links

* Typography in 8 bits: System fonts
* Video ROMs

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