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I found a printer's character display (L303646 variant) and I want to document its character set, which I captured using a camera and redrew in this grid.

The goal is to assign the corresponding Unicode character to each symbol. This version is codepage #7, as marked at character 0x04. First 4 characters are RAM (user-definable). The character set is 8bit and ASCII-based (0x20~0x7F), the rest of the characters are various Western European diacritics (0x08~0x0F,0x18~0x1F,0x20~0x7F,), Romanian (0xA0~0xA5) and obviously Cyrillic (0xA6~0xDC). I was able to assign Unicode values to all characters except for a few. The character set is strange: homographs to Latin letters such as Cyrillic АВСЕНІКМОРТХ are left out to save space while others (green) are duplicates of other glyphs. However, I still don't have a character matching the ones marked red. Please help!

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
  • 0xA8: looks like a comma but very small, maybe ? Note that if this was a lower straight quotation mark, there would be a matching straight ' but there isn't, there is a 9-shaped one at 0x12 and the apostrophe 0x27 is 6-shaped () rather than straight. In fact, the comma 0x2C fits better for a lower-9 quotation mark.
  • 0xCE: no idea '_'
  • 0xCF: looks like 2 exclamation marks (‼) but small
  • 0xD0: likely an attempt at lower quotation marks but I don't know any language that draws them 66-shaped, not 99-shaped in serif form - a mistake by the LCD manufacturer?
  • 0xD4: looks like Roman numeral 𝐈𝐈 (2) or Gemini (♊︎) except why would anyone want just this character rather than the others that go with it?
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