Macintosh Latin encoding

This article is about the interchange encoding used by Kermit. For the standard Mac OS encoding, see Mac OS Roman.
Macintosh Latin
KermitMACINTOSH-LATIN
Created byKermit project
Current statusUsed by Kermit
Based onMac OS Icelandic[1]
Transforms / EncodesISO/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,[2] 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[1] to include all characters in ISO/IEC 8859-1, DEC MCS, the PostScript Standard Encoding, and a Dutch ISO 646 variant[a] (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.

  1. ^ a b da Cruz, Frank (2010-04-02). "Kermit and MIME Character-Set Names". Kermit Project. Columbia University.
  2. ^ "Kermit Character-Set Names". www.kermitproject.org. Retrieved 2022-10-26.
  3. ^ "Macintosh Kermit code page".


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