African 8-bit ASCII, or more correctly: ISO 6438, first registerred in 1979. This was based on a Western attempt to create a phonetic alphabet for many African languages. ISO 6438 was rarely used.
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The ATASCII font, used in Atari’s 8-bit computers.
ArmSCII: Armenian ASCII, formally defined in 1997.
The original emoji set, made by Shigetaka Kurita for DoCoMo in 1999 (top image, now in MOMA). The other images are from the 2001-version, which Monica recently turned into a font that you can use for free.
2 hour video that shows all the 109,242 characters of Unicode 6.0. Made by the decodeunicode crew, apparently independent from the one that Jörg Piringer did.
ArmSCII, a set of Armenian ASCII-standards published in 1997. Note that it contains ֎ (the eternity sign) and … (horizontal ellipsis). ISO published another standard for Armenian in 1996, which became much more popular, but it lacked eternity and ellipsis.
Elektronika MK-85 and its character set. It was the first Soviet calculator with BASIC, and almost an exact copy of the Casio FX-700P.
Minitel character set. Photo by Kevin Driscoll.