Macintosh Latin encoding explained

Macintosh Latin
Kermit:	MACINTOSH-LATIN
By:	Kermit project
Status:	Used by Kermit
Basedon:	Mac OS Icelandic
Encodes:	ISO/IEC 8859-1, DEC MCS, PostScript Standard Encoding

Macintosh Latin is an obsolete character encoding which was used by Kermit (which as of 2022 supports Unicode UTF-8,^[1] though not UTF-16) to represent text on the Apple Macintosh (but not by standard Mac OS fonts). It is a modification of Mac OS Icelandic^[2] to include all characters in ISO/IEC 8859-1, DEC MCS, the PostScript Standard Encoding, and a Dutch ISO 646 variant (with ÿ or ij being a substitute for ij).^[3] Although Macintosh Latin is designed to be compatible with the standard Macintosh Mac OS Roman encoding for the shared subset of characters, the two should not be confused.

Layout

Each character is shown with its equivalent Unicode code point. Only the second half of the table (code points 128 - 255) is shown, the first half (code points 0 - 127) being the same as ASCII.

See also

• Macintosh Font X encoding, another Mac OS encoding used by Kermit

Notes and References

1. Web site: Kermit Character-Set Names . 2022-10-26 . www.kermitproject.org.
2. Web site: Kermit and MIME Character-Set Names . da Cruz . Frank . 2010-04-02 . . Columbia University.
3. Web site: Macintosh Kermit code page.