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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 localizations: 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
F i r s t d i g i t	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	:	;	<	=	>	?
	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	�	�	�	�	�	�	�	�	�	�	�	�	�	�	�	�
	9x	�	�	�	�	�	�	�	�	�	�	�	�	�	�	�	�
	Ax	†	�	�	�	�	•	�	�	�	�	™	�	�	≠	�	�
	Bx	∞	�	≤	≥	�	�	∂	∑	∏	π	∫	�	�	Ω	�	�
	Cx	�	�	�	√	ƒ	≈	∆	�	�	…		�	�	�	Œ	œ
	Dx	–	—	“	”	‘	’	�	◊	�	Ÿ	⁄	€�	‹	›	ﬁ	ﬂ
	Ex	‡	�	‚	„	‰	�	�	�	�	�	�	�	�	�	�	�
	Fx		�	�	�	�	ı	ˆ	˜	�	˘	˙	˚	�	˝	˛	ˇ

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

External links

http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/ROMAN.TXT
Description of the 'cmap' resource (http://developer.apple.com/fonts/TTRefMan/RM06/Chap6cmap.html)

Categories: Character sets | Mac OS

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