Teletext character set

This article covers technical details of the character encoding system defined by ETS 300 706 of the ETSI, a standard for World System Teletext, and used for the Viewdata and Teletext variants of Videotex in Europe.

The following tables show various Teletext character sets.

Space and control characters are represented by the abbreviations for their names.

Control characters are used to set foreground and background color (black, red, green, yellow, blue, magenta, cyan, white, flash), character height (normal, double width, double height, double), current default character set, and other attributes.

Note that each Arabic contextual/positional character in the tables below is shown with the non-positional Unicode equivalent if available.