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Mac-Roman encodiing

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The Mac OS Roman character set Mac-Roman encoding is a one byte character encoding system, traditionally used by Mac OS. In Mac OS X, it has been replaced with Unicode.

The first 128 characters are equal to the ASCII character encoding (or 'cmap' in Macintosh context), and the rest are allocated as described below.

The Mac OS Roman character set is used for the following Mac OS localisations: U.S., British, Canadian French, French, Swiss French, German, Swiss German, Italian, Swiss Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Brazilian and the default International system.

Variants of this codepage are used for Croatian, Icelandic, Turkish, Romanian, and other encodings. Separate mapping tables are available for these encodings, see Mac-Romanian, Mac-Turkish, Mac-Iceland, Mac-Croatian.


Mac-roman encoding
- - Second digit
- - x0 x1 x2 x3 x4 x5 x6 x7 x8 x9 xA xB xC xD xE xF
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0x NUL SOH STX ETX EOT ENQ ACK BEL BS HT LF VT FF CR SO SI
1x DLE DC1 DC2 DC3 DC4 NAK SYN ETB CAN EM SUB ESC FS GS RS US
2x SP ! " # $ % & ' ( ) * + , - . /
3x 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 : ; < = &rt; ?
4x @ A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O
5x P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ^ _
6x ` a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o
7x p q r s t u v w x y z { | } ~ DEL
8x Ä Å Ç É Ñ Ö Ü á à â ä ã å ç é è
9x ê ë í ì î ï ñ ó ò ô ö õ ú ù û ü
Ax ° ¢ £ § ß ® © ´ ¨ Æ Ø
Bx ± ¥ µ π ª º Ω æ ø
Cx ¿ ¡ ¬ ƒ « »   À Ã Õ Œ œ
Dx ÷ ÿ Ÿ €¹
Ex · Â Ê Á Ë È Í Î Ï Ì Ó Ô
Fx Ò Ú Û Ù ı ˆ ˜ ¯ ˘ ˙ ˚ ¸ ˝ ˛ ˇ

¹Before Mac OS 8.5, the character 0xDB mapped to currency sign (&#xa4), but this was changed to euro currency (€).

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