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The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority identifies this encoding using the string "macintosh." The MIME Content-Type for this encoding is therefore "text/plain; charset=macintosh". Mac OS Roman is also referred to as MacRoman or the Apple Standard Roman character set.

The following table shows how characters are encoded in Mac OS Roman. Each character is assigned a number from 0-255. The table shows the number in Hexadecimal with the least-significant digit providing the column headings and the most-significant digit providing the row headings.

#Before Mac OS 8.5 , the character 0xDB mapped to currency sign (¤), but this was changed to Euro Currency (€).


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EXTERNAL LINKS

  • http://www.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/APPLE/ROMAN.TXT

  • http://developer.apple.com/documentation/mac/Text/Text-30.html#HEADING30-9 Description of Mac OS Roman



REFERENCES

  • Apple Computer, Inc. (1993). ''Inside Macintosh: Text''. New York: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-63298-5.

  • Apple Computer, Inc. (1985). ''Inside Macintosh Volume I''. New York: Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-17731-5.