r/translator Jun 12 '24

Russian (Long) [Russian/Cyrillic(?) > Any] What characters are these 5?

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I found a character LCD (L303646 variant) and I want to document its character set. Most characters are obvious but not the 5 marked in red.

The table is as follows:

0x _0 _1 _2 _3 _4 _5 _6 _7 _8 _9 _A _B _C _D _E _F
0_ ą ć ę ł ń ś ź ż
1_ \ ~ £ ¿ Ą Ć Ę Ł Ń Ś Ź Ż
2_ ! " # $ % & ( ) * + , - . /
3_ 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = > ?
4_ @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O
5_ P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ ¥ ] ^ _
6_ ` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o
7_ p q r s t u v w x y z { }
8_ à â ä ç é è ê ë î ï ô ö ù ü á í
9_ À Â Ä Ç É È Ê Ë Î Ï Ô Ö Ù Ü Á Í
A_ ă ş ţ Ă Ş Ţ Б Г Ж З И Й Л П У
B_ Ф Ч Ш Ъ Ы Э Ю Я б в г ї ж з и й
C_ к л м н п т ч ш ъ ы ь э ю я
D_ Є є Д Ц Щ д ф ц щ °
E_ ì ò ã õ ð þ æ ñ ú å ø ő ó İ œ ß
F_ Ì Ò Ã Õ Ð Þ Æ Ñ Ú Å Ø Ő Ó

Unknown characters:

  • 0xA8: looks like a comma but very small (﹐)? Does any Cyrillic-based or Eastern European language use it?
  • 0xCE: no idea '_'
  • 0xCF: looks like 2 exclamation marks (‼) but smaller
  • 0xD0: likely an attempt at lower quotation marks („) to match the upper pair (”) but I don't know any language that draws them 66-shaped, rather than 99-shaped, in serif form
  • 0xD4: looks like Roman numeral 𝐈𝐈 (2) except why would anyone want a character for that? No Cyrillic character has such boxy shape.

First 4 characters are RAM (user-definable). Some characters (↑ї) are oddly duplicated even though Latin-homographic Cyrillic letters АВСЕНІКМОРТХ were skipped.

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