The various shapes of numerical digits, letters, and punctuation on seven-segment displays is not standardized by any relevant entity (e.g. ISO, IEEE or IEC). Unicode provides encoding codepoint for segmented digits in Unicode 13.0 in Symbols for Legacy Computing block.
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
| U+1FBF0 | U+1FBF1 | U+1FBF2 | U+1FBF3 | U+1FBF4 | U+1FBF5 | U+1FBF6 | U+1FBF7 | U+1FBF8 | U+1FBF9 |
Two basic conventions are in common use for some Arabic numerals: display segment A is optional for digit 6 ( / 
), [1] [2] [3] [4] segment F for 7 ( / 
), and segment D for 9 ( / 
). [1] [2] [3] [4] Although EF ( 
) could also be used to represent digit 1, this seems to be rarely done if ever. CDEG ( 
) is occasionally encountered on older calculators to represent 0.
In Unicode 13.0, 10 codepoints had been given for segmented digits 0–9 in the Symbols for Legacy Computing block:
| Symbols for Legacy Computing [1] [2] Official Unicode Consortium code chart (PDF) | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| U+1FBFx | 🯰 | 🯱 | 🯲 | 🯳 | 🯴 | 🯵 | 🯶 | 🯷 | 🯸 | 🯹 | ||||||
| Notes | ||||||||||||||||
In addition to the ten digits, seven-segment displays can be used to show most letters of the Latin, Cyrillic and Greek alphabets including punctuation.
| Uppercase |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | | |  |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lowercase |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | |  |  |  | |  |  | | |  |  | | |  | |
| Punctuation |  |  | |  |  |  |  |  | |  ] | | | | | |  | |  | | | ||||||
One such special case is the display of the letters A–F when denoting the hexadecimal values (digits) 10–15. These are needed on some scientific calculators, and are used with some testing displays on electronic equipment. Although there is no official standard, today most devices displaying hex digits use the unique forms shown to the right: uppercase A, lowercase b, uppercase C, lowercase d, uppercase E and F. [5] To avoid ambiguity between the digit 6 and the letter b the digit 6 is displayed with segment A lit. [2] [6] [7] [8] [9]
However, this modern scheme was not always followed in the past, and various other schemes could be found as well:
For the remainder of characters, ad hoc and corporate solutions[ clarification needed ] dominate the field of using seven-segment displays to show general words and phrases. Such applications of seven-segment displays are usually not considered essential and are only used for basic notifications on consumer electronics appliances (as is the case of this article's example phrases), and as internal test messages on equipment under development. Certain letters (M, V, W, X in the Latin alphabet) cannot be expressed unambiguously at all due to either diagonal strokes, more than two vertical strokes, or inability to distinguish them from other letters, while others can only be expressed in either capital form or lowercase form but not both. The Nine-segment display, fourteen-segment display, sixteen-segment display or dot matrix display are more commonly used for hardware that requires the display of messages that are more than trivial.
The following phrases come from a portable media player's seven-segment display. They give a good illustration of an application where a seven-segment display may be sufficient for displaying letters, since the relevant messages are neither critical nor in any significant risk of being misunderstood, much due to the limited number and rigid domain specificity of the messages. As such, there is no direct need for a more expressive display, in this case, although even a slightly wider repertoire of messages would require at least a 14-segment display or a dot matrix one.
{ ! Alphanumeric display |}
| Gerry rafferty |          | Village human |        | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elton john |   | Sherbet | | ||
| Queen |  | scorpions |   | ||
| Eagle | | Uriah heep | | ||
| Aerosmith | | Deep purple |   | ||
| Scorpions | | UFO | | ||
| Eagle | | Alias | | ||
| Sherbet | | Eric clapton |  | ||
| CCR | | Eric clapton | | ||
| Tina chales | | Brownsville station |   | ||
| Pilot | | Carpenters | | ||
| Oshiba | | KC sunshine | | ||
| Pauk Paul | | Blondie | | ||
| Smokie |  | Deep purple | | ||
| Blue magic | | The knack | | ||
| Christe | | Blondie | | ||
| The J.Geils band | . | Cliff richard | | ||
| Oiho express |  | The searches | | ||
| Cyndi lauper | | Modern talking | | ||
| Ricky martin | | Maria Montell | | ||
| Eiffel 65 | | Tom jones | | ||
| Yes | | Debbie gipson | | ||
| Modern talking | | Silent circle | | ||
| Toto coelo | | Shannon | | ||
| Santa esmeralda | | Job 2 do | | ||
| No war | | Boyzone | | ||
| Eric clapton | | Sherbet | | ||
| Deep purple | | Eagle | | ||
| Mistofy | | CCR | | ||
| Jesus | | Revently | | ||
| Certain | | CRC | | ||
| RCRT | |
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