Ventura International (or VENTURA_INT) is an 8-bit
character encoding created by
Ventura Software for use with
Ventura Publisher.[1] 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.
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_
B4
CF
C5
C0
CC
C8
D4
B5
C1
CD
C9
DD
D1
D9
D8
D0
9_
DC
D7
D3
C2
CE
CA
C3
CB
EF
DA
DB
BF
BB
BC
BA
BE
A_
C4
D5
C6
C7
B7
B6
F9
FA
B9
B1
B2
AB
AC
B8
FB
FD
B_
E2
EA
D2
D6
F1
F0
A1
E1
E9
BD
F4
F3
F2
A8
A9
AA
C_
A0
FF
B0
FC
F6
F5
B3
E0
A2
A3
A4
A5
E6
E5
A6
A7
D_
E8
E7
DF
EB
EC
AD
ED
AE
EE
DE
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_
C0
B6
C8
C9
CA
CB
CE
CF
BD
BE
BF
AB
AC
D5
D7
B_
C2
A9
AA
C6
80
87
A5
A4
AD
A8
9E
9C
9D
B9
9F
9B
C_
83
88
93
96
A0
82
A2
A3
85
8A
95
97
84
89
94
81
D_
8F
8C
B2
92
86
A1
B3
91
8E
8D
99
9A
90
8B
D9
D2
E_
C7
B7
B0
CD
CC
D1
D0
B8
B1
D3
D4
D6
D8
98
F_
B5
B4
BC
BB
BA
C5
C4
A6
A7
AE
C3
AF
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.[3]
Each character appears with its equivalent
Unicode code-point. Note that the section sign and the space have two representations.[4]