Macintosh encodings

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The Macintosh "Classic" OS (before OS X) used a number of 8-bit encodings for various locales. These are supersets of ASCII but don't resemble any other standard encoding in the range from 128 to 255. MacSymbol and MacDingbats are graphic character sets that are completely different from ASCII.
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The Macintosh "Classic" OS (before OS X) used a number of 8-bit encodings for various locales. These are supersets of [[ASCII]] but don't resemble any other standard encoding in the range from 128 to 255. MacSymbol and MacDingbats are graphic character sets that are completely different from ASCII.
  
 
Text encoded with the Macintosh fonts often uses just CR (0X0D) for a line ending, without LF (0X0A).
 
Text encoded with the Macintosh fonts often uses just CR (0X0D) for a line ending, without LF (0X0A).
  
Code tables as given by non-Apple sources:
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Macintosh encodings may include an "Apple logo" character, making [[Unicode]] mappings problematical, due to Unicode's policy of not encoding corporate logos. In practice, the Apple logo is usually encoded as U+F8FF, in Unicode's "private use" area.
* [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc195079.aspx MacCE]
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* [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc195078.aspx MacCyrillic]
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== List of encodings ==
* [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc195077.aspx MacGreek]
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* [[MacCE]] (Central Europe) - [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc195079.aspx Code chart from MSDN]
* [http://www.kreativekorp.com/charset/encoding.php?file=macgujarati.kte MacGujarati]
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* [[MacCyrillic]] - [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc195078.aspx Code chart from MSDN]
* [http://www.kreativekorp.com/charset/encoding.php?file=macgurmukhi.kte MacGurMukhi]
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* [[MacDingbats]] - [http://www.kreativekorp.com/charset/encoding.php?name=Mac+OS+Dingbats Code chart from KreativeKorp]
* [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc195080.aspx MacIcelandic]
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* [[MacGreek]] - [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc195077.aspx Code chart from MSDN]
* [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc195076.aspx MacRoman]
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* [[MacGujarati]] - [http://www.kreativekorp.com/charset/encoding.php?file=macgujarati.kte Code chart from KreativeKorp]
* [http://www.kreativekorp.com/charset/encoding.php?file=macromanian.kte MacRomania]
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* [[MacGurmukhi]] - [http://www.kreativekorp.com/charset/encoding.php?file=macgurmukhi.kte Code chart from KreativeKorp]
* [http://www.kreativekorp.com/charset/encoding.php?file=macsymbol.kte MacSymbol]
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* [[MacIcelandic]] - [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc195080.aspx Code chart from MSDN]
* [http://www.kreativekorp.com/charset/encoding.php?file=macthai.kte MacThai]
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* [[MacRoman]] (a.k.a. "macintosh")
* [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc195081.aspx MacTurkish]
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* [[MacRomanian]] - [http://www.kreativekorp.com/charset/encoding.php?file=macromanian.kte Code chart from KreativeKorp]
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* [[MacSymbol]] - [http://www.kreativekorp.com/charset/encoding.php?file=macsymbol.kte Code chart from KreativeKorp]
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* [[MacThai]] - [http://www.kreativekorp.com/charset/encoding.php?file=macthai.kte Code chart from KreativeKorp]
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* [[MacTurkish]] - [http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc195081.aspx Code chart from MSDN]
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== Links ==
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* [[Wikipedia:Category:Mac OS character encodings]]
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[[Category:Macintosh]]

Latest revision as of 22:01, 15 June 2019

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Name Macintosh encodings
Ontology
PRONOM x-fmt/14

The Macintosh "Classic" OS (before OS X) used a number of 8-bit encodings for various locales. These are supersets of ASCII but don't resemble any other standard encoding in the range from 128 to 255. MacSymbol and MacDingbats are graphic character sets that are completely different from ASCII.

Text encoded with the Macintosh fonts often uses just CR (0X0D) for a line ending, without LF (0X0A).

Macintosh encodings may include an "Apple logo" character, making Unicode mappings problematical, due to Unicode's policy of not encoding corporate logos. In practice, the Apple logo is usually encoded as U+F8FF, in Unicode's "private use" area.

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