Mac OS Roman

Mac OS Roman
MIME / IANA macintosh
Alias(es) mac, MacRoman, x-mac-roman
Language(s) English, various others
Classification Extended ASCII, Mac OS script
Extends ASCII

Mac OS Roman is a character encoding primarily used by the classic Mac OS to represent text. It encodes 256 characters, the first 128 of which are identical to ASCII, with the remaining characters including mathematical symbols, diacritics, and additional punctuation marks. It is suitable for English and several other Western languages. Mac OS Roman is a superset of the original Macintosh character set, used in System 1.

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 Microsoft Windows code page number is 10000.

Codepage layout

The following table shows how characters are encoded in Macintosh Roman. Each character is shown with its Unicode equivalent right below and its decimal code at the bottom.

Mac OS Roman
_0 _1 _2 _3 _4 _5 _6 _7 _8 _9 _A _B _C _D _E _F
0_ NUL
0000		 SOH
0001		 STX
0002		 ETX
0003		 EOT
0004		 ENQ
0005		 ACK
0006		 BEL
0007		 BS
0008		 HT
0009		 LF
000A		 VT
000B		 FF
000C		 CR
000D		 SO
000E		 SI
000F
1_ DLE
0010		 DC1[lower-alpha 1]
0011		 DC2[lower-alpha 1]
0012		 DC3[lower-alpha 1]
0013		 DC4[lower-alpha 1]
0014		 NAK
0015		 SYN
0016		 ETB
0017		 CAN
0018		 EM
0019		 SUB
001A		 ESC
001B		 FS
001C		 GS
001D		 RS
001E		 US
001F
2_ SP
0020		 !
0021		 "
0022		 #
0023		 $
0024		 %
0025		 &
0026		 '
0027		 (
0028		 )
0029		 *
002A		 +
002B		 ,
002C		 -
002D		 .
002E		 /
002F
3_ 0
0030		 1
0031		 2
0032		 3
0033		 4
0034		 5
0035		 6
0036		 7
0037		 8
0038		 9
0039		 :
003A		 ;
003B		 <
003C		 =
003D		 >
003E		 ?
003F
4_ @
0040		 A
0041		 B
0042		 C
0043		 D
0044		 E
0045		 F
0046		 G
0047		 H
0048		 I
0049		 J
004A		 K
004B		 L
004C		 M
004D		 N
004E		 O
004F
5_ P
0050		 Q
0051		 R
0052		 S
0053		 T
0054		 U
0055		 V
0056		 W
0057		 X
0058		 Y
0059		 Z
005A		 [
005B		 \
005C		 ]
005D		 ^
005E		 _
005F
6_ `
0060		 a
0061		 b
0062		 c
0063		 d
0064		 e
0065		 f
0066		 g
0067		 h
0068		 i
0069		 j
006A		 k
006B		 l
006C		 m
006D		 n
006E		 o
006F
7_ p
0070		 q
0071		 r
0072		 s
0073		 t
0074		 u
0075		 v
0076		 w
0077		 x
0078		 y
0079		 z
007A		 {
007B		 |
007C		 }
007D		 ~
007E		 DEL
007F
8_ Ä
00C4		 Å
00C5		 Ç
00C7		 É
00C9		 Ñ
00D1		 Ö
00D6		 Ü
00DC		 á
00E1		 à
00E0		 â
00E2		 ä
00E4		 ã
00E3		 å
00E5		 ç
00E7		 é
00E9		 è
00E8
9_ ê
00EA		 ë
00EB		 í
00ED		 ì
00EC		 î
00EE		 ï
00EF		 ñ
00F1		 ó
00F3		 ò
00F2		 ô
00F4		 ö
00F6		 õ
00F5		 ú
00FA		 ù
00F9		 û
00FB		 ü
00FC
A_ †
2020		 °
00B0		 ¢
00A2[lower-alpha 2]		 £
00A3[lower-alpha 2]		 §
00A7		 •
2022
00B6		 ß
00DF		 ®
00AE		 ©
00A9[lower-alpha 2]		 ™
2122		 ´
00B4		 ¨
00A8		 ≠
2260		 Æ
00C6		 Ø
00D8
B_ ∞
221E		 ±
00B1[lower-alpha 2]		 ≤
2264		 ≥
2265		 ¥
00A5		 µ
00B5[lower-alpha 2]		 ∂
2202		 ∑
2211		 ∏
220F		 π
03C0		 ∫
222B		 ª
00AA		 º
00BA		 Ω
03A9		 æ
00E6		 ø
00F8
C_ ¿
00BF		 ¡
00A1		 ¬
00AC		 √
221A		 ƒ
0192		 ≈
2248		 ∆
2206		 «
00AB		 »
00BB		 …
2026		 NBSP
00A0		 À
00C0		 Ã
00C3		 Õ
00D5		 Œ
0152		 œ
0153
D_ –
2013		 —
2014		 “
201C		 ”
201D		 ‘
2018		 ’
2019		 ÷
00F7		 ◊
25CA		 ÿ
00FF		 Ÿ
0178		 ⁄
2044		 €[lower-alpha 3]
20AC		 ‹
2039		 ›
203A		 fi
FB01		 fl
FB02
E_ ‡
2021		 ·
00B7		 ‚
201A		 „
201E		 ‰
2030		 Â
00C2		 Ê
00CA		 Á
00C1		 Ë
00CB		 È
00C8		 Í
00CD		 Î
00CE		 Ï
00CF		 Ì
00CC		 Ó
00D3		 Ô
00D4
F_ [lower-alpha 4]
F8FF		 Ò
00D2		 Ú
00DA		 Û
00DB		 Ù
00D9		 ı
0131		 ˆ
02C6		 ˜
02DC		 ¯
00AF		 ˘
02D8		 ˙
02D9		 ˚
02DA		 ¸
00B8		 ˝
02DD		 ˛
02DB		 ˇ
02C7

  Letter   Number   Punctuation   Symbol   Other   undefined

  1. 1 2 3 4 The (usually nonprintable) character 0x11 is mapped to the Command key glyph (⌘) in many fonts, particularly those intended for use as system fonts. It is mappable to the Unicode character U+2318 ⌘ PLACE OF INTEREST SIGN. The codes 0x12, 0x13, and 0x14 were also used for icons to indicate the shift, option, and control keys in menu items.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 The codes 0xA2, 0xA3, 0xA9, 0xB1, and 0xB5 coincidentally have the same character assignment as ISO 8859-1 (and thus Unicode).
  3. ↑ Before Mac OS 8.5, the character 0xDB mapped to currency sign (¤), Unicode character U+00A4.
  4. ↑ The character 0xF0 is a solid Apple logo. The Unicode equivalent U+F8FF is in the Corporate Private Use Area, but it is probably not supported on non-Apple platforms.

Application notes

With the release of Mac OS X, Mac OS Roman and all other "scripts" (as the Mac OS called them) were replaced by UTF-8 as the standard character encoding for the Macintosh operating system. However, the default character encoding in Java for macOS is still MacRoman (see Mac Dev Center), and the keyboard layout with its combination of control, option, and dead keys still map to the original characters in MacRoman. The default character encoding for Java can be changed to UTF-8 by adding the following line to .bashrc:

export set JAVA_OPTS="$JAVA_OPTS -Dfile.encoding=UTF8"

See also

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.
  • Apple Computer, Inc. (2002) [1995-04-15]. "ROMAN.TXT: Map (external version) from Mac OS Roman character set to Unicode 2.1 and later". Unicode, Inc. Archived from the original on 2017-02-17. Retrieved 2017-02-17.
  • "Description of Mac OS Roman". 2009. Archived from the original on 2009-05-27.
  • "Apple Quickdraw Character Set". Kermit. Columbia University. Retrieved 2017-02-17.
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