Talk:SmileBASIC (Petit Computer 3)/@comment-24739388-20150719015050/@comment-4509370-20150719121630

There's quite a few font slots which are used multiple times, for example plenty of languages need something that looks like an apostrophe, or consider that low ASCII (0x20-0x7F) is mostly duplicated at 0xFF00-0xFF5F for round-trip compatability with some quirks of Japanese JIS layout. So even though there's less than 4000 different slots used, there's roughly 5000 characters defined in the end.

The DIALOG font goes up to roughly 8000 at last count, I think, since that wasn't limited by a 4096 limit and has even more kanji, Nintendo symbols, and so on.

On both fonts characters can't be counted programatically, else I'd be a lot more accurate with those counts.