<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">Here are a few more web sites showing Teletext pages from various European TV channels.</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">THE LIST IS SURELY FAR FROM COMPLETE, it is just a sample. But it does show that Teletext</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">is commonly displayed as web pages, not just via TV channels (whether "analog" or DVB).</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">I haven't seen these combined with web versions of TV channels, but that would surely</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">be possible to combine. That would be especially useful for optional subtilting, where</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">Teletext is still much used, as a useful accessibility feature.</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">I have no prediction of how long any channels will continue to produce Teletext content.</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">But optional subtilting seems to "survive" longer.</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">I do not know what source format(s) may be used, but it is surely not HTML</span> <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">*nor* close</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">to the Teletext protocol. But see the Teletext page edit tool referenced below.</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">Spain, RTVE:</span><br class=""><a href="https://www.rtve.es/television/teletexto/100/" class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">https://www.rtve.es/television/teletexto/100/</a><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">Sweden, SVT:</span><br class=""><a href="https://texttv.nu/" class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">https://texttv.nu/</a> <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">(also as iOS app, same name)</span><br class=""><a href="https://www.svt.se/svttext/web/pages/100.html" class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">https://www.svt.se/svttext/web/pages/100.html</a><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">Iceland, RÚV:</span><br class=""><a href="http://textavarp.is/sida/100" class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">http://textavarp.is/sida/100</a><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">Denmark, DR:</span><br class=""><a href="https://www.dr.dk/cgi-bin/fttx1.exe/100" class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">https://www.dr.dk/cgi-bin/fttx1.exe/100</a><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">Norway, NRK:</span><br class=""><a href="https://www.nrk.no/tekst-tv/100/" class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">https://www.nrk.no/tekst-tv/100/</a><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">Finland, YLE:</span><br class=""><a href="https://yle.fi/aihe/tekstitv" class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">https://yle.fi/aihe/tekstitv</a><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">Switzerland, SRF:</span><br class=""><a href="https://www.teletext.ch/" class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">https://www.teletext.ch/</a><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">Croatia, HRT:</span><br class=""><a href="https://teletekst.hrt.hr/" class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">https://teletekst.hrt.hr/</a><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">Greece:</span><br class=""><a href="https://www.greektvidents.com/Teletext_ERTEXT.shtml" class="" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;">https://www.greektvidents.com/Teletext_ERTEXT.shtml</a><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">And more; I have not done a complete survey!</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">There are also several apps for iOS and for Android that display Teletext content from</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">various (TV channel) providers.</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">What the source format is for the Teletext pages as produced today, I don't know. But I would</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">guess</span> <span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">that it is likely "plain text" files, with Teletext specific markup, that is then converted to</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">1) Teletext analog format, 2) Teletext DVB format, 3) HTML. But that is just my guess.</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">Again note that Teletext is still commonly used for optional subtitles. (DVB subtitles, a "bitmapped"</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">format (i.e. the subtitles are sent as images, not text) does not seem to be used much. At least, I</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">haven't seen it.) This requires timing, which is not part of the Teletext protocol, but must be in</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">the source in order to control when a subtitle is output as Teletext for optional display.</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">So</span> <br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> "But a teletext application for a modern computer is not "normal use." It is reasonable</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> for a non-standard application like this to interpret characters from U+0000 to U+001F</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> as the corresponding ISO 646 characters would be in teletext."</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">is very false.</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">Further, the "object" overrides in the Teletext *protocol*, in several levels, "objects"</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">prioritized depending on "implementation level", can specify:</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">1) Bold, italic, underline, proportional font.</span><br class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">2) More colours (but only 16 levels per red/green/blue, no </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">transparency</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> though).</span></font><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">3) Character substitutions (likely replacing spaces) to be able to display characters from "G3".</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class="">These cannot be handled by "retaining" the ill-designed control codes of Teletext anyway.</span><br class=""><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Have an </span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">urge</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> to edit your own Teletext pages? Here</span><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">’</span><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">s the web page for doing just that:</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class=""><a href="https://zxnet.co.uk/teletext/editor" class="">https://zxnet.co.uk/teletext/editor</a></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">You can save your page in a handful of formats (plus as image). I haven’t analyzed these formats,</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">but presumably they are storage formats actually used for ”real” Teletext pages that are converted</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">to be transmitted (”analog” (outdated) or DVB) or given as web pages (HTML, but no ”separated</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">mosaic” characters, since they are not yet allocated in Unicode; could use small images though...).</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">/Kent K</span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div></body></html>