Text encodings ans escape sequences

Text encoding list

default – default console encoding (can be omitted)
scr – default screencodes (usually the same as default, a notable exception are the Commodore computers)
ascii – standard ASCII
pet or petscii – PETSCII (ASCII-like character set used by Commodore machines)
cbmscr or petscr – Commodore screencodes
apple2 – Apple II charset ($A0–$FE)
bbc – BBC Micro character set
sinclair – ZX Spectrum character set
jis or jisx – JIS X 0201
iso_de, iso_no, iso_se, iso_yu – various variants of ISO/IEC-646
iso_dk, iso_fi – aliases for iso_no and iso_se respectively

When programming for Commodore, use pet for strings you're printing using standard I/O routines and petscr for strings you're copying to screen memory directly.

Escape sequences

Available everywhere

{n} – new line
{q} – double quote symbol
{apos} – apostrophe/single quote
{x00}–{xff} – a character of the given hexadecimal value

Available only in some encodings

{b} – backspace
{lbrace}, {rbrace} – opening and closing curly brace (only in encodings that support braces)
{up}, {down}, {left}, {right} – control codes for moving the cursor
{white}, {black}, {red}, {green}, {blue}, {cyan}, {yellow}, {purple} – control codes for changing the text color
{bgwhite}, {bgblack}, {bgred}, {bggreen}, {bgblue}, {bgcyan}, {bgyellow}, {bgpurple} – control codes for changing the text background color
{reverse}, {reverseoff} – inverted mode on/off

Escape sequence availability

Encoding | braces | backspace | cursor movement | text colour and reverse | background colour --|--|--|--|-- pet | no | no | yes | yes | no petscr | no | no | no | no | no sinclair | yes | no | yes | yes | yes ascii, iso_* | yes | yes | no | no | no all the rest | yes | no | no | no | no

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