NeXT character set
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Short description: Character encoding used on NeXT workstations
| Kermit | next-multinational |
|---|---|
| Alias(es) | WE8NEXTSTEP |
| Created by | NeXT |
| Extends | PostScript Standard Encoding |
| Transforms / Encodes | ISO-8859-1[lower-alpha 1] |
| Other related encoding(s) |
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The NeXT character set (often aliased as NeXTSTEP encoding vector, WE8NEXTSTEP[1] or next-multinational[2]) was used by the NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP operating systems on NeXT workstations beginning in 1988. It is based on Adobe Systems' PostScript (PS) character set aka Adobe Standard Encoding where unused code points were filled up with characters from ISO 8859-1 (Latin 1), although at differing code points.[3]
Character set
The following table shows the NeXT character set. Each character is shown with a potential Unicode equivalent. Codepoints 00hex (0) to 7Fhex (127) are nearly identical to ASCII.
| NeXT character set[4][5][6][3][7][8] | ||||||||||||||||
| 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | |
| 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 | ! | " | # | $ | % | & | ’[3] | ( | ) | * | + | , | - | . | / |
| 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 | [ | \ | ] | ^ | [[Underscore|]] |
| 6x | ‘[3] | 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 | fsp | À | Á | Â | Ã | Ä | Å | Ç | È | É | Ê | Ë | Ì | Í | Î | Ï |
| 9x | Ð | Ñ | Ò | Ó | Ô | Õ | Ö | Ù | Ú | Û | Ü | Ý | Þ | µ | × | ÷ |
| Ax | © | ¡ | ¢ | £ | ⁄ | ¥ | ƒ | § | ¤ | '[3] | “ | « | ‹ | › | fi | fl |
| Bx | ® | – | † | ‡ | · | ¦ | ¶ | • | ‚ | „ | ” | » | …[3] | ‰ | ¬ | ¿ |
| Cx | ¹ | ˋ | ´ | ˆ | ˜ | ¯ | ˘ | ˙ | ¨ | ² | ˚[3] | ¸ | ³ | ˝ | ˛ | ˇ |
| Dx | — | ± | ¼ | ½ | ¾ | à | á | â | ã | ä | å | ç | è | é | ê | ë |
| Ex | ì | Æ | í | ª | î | ï | ð | ñ | Ł | Ø | Œ | º | ò | ó | ô | õ |
| Fx | ö | æ | ù | ú | û | ı | ü | ý | ł | ø | œ | ß | þ | ÿ | ||
Differences from Adobe Standard Encoding
See also
- Display PostScript (DPS)
Footnotes
- ↑ If the left single quotation mark and/or the modifier letter grave accent is unified with the backtick, the degree sign is unified with the high ring, and the soft hyphen is unified with the en dash. Not counting C1 control codes.
References
- ↑ "Appendix A: Locale Data". Oracle9i Database Globalization Support Guide (Release 2 (9.2) ed.). Oracle Corporation. 2002. Oracle A96529-01. https://docs.oracle.com/cd/B10501_01/server.920/a96529.pdf. Retrieved 2017-02-14.
- ↑ "Character sets". Kermit. Columbia University. 2000-01-01. http://www.kermitproject.org/charsets.html.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 "Keyboard Event Information - Encoding Vectors". NeXT Computer, Inc.. 1995. http://www.nextop.de/NeXTstep_3.3_Developer_Documentation/GeneralRef/_ApC_KeyboardEvents/KeyInfo.htmld/index.html.
- ↑ "NextStep Encoding to Unicode". Unicode, Inc.. 1999-09-23. http://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/VENDORS/NEXT/NEXTSTEP.TXT.
- ↑ "Codepage & Co.". 1998-06-27. NeXTSTEP. http://czyborra.com/charsets/codepages.html#NeXTSTEP. [1] [2]
- ↑ "Locale::RecodeData::NEXTSTEP - Conversion routines for NEXTSTEP". CPAN libintl-perl. 2016. http://search.cpan.org/~guido/libintl-perl/lib/Locale/RecodeData/NEXTSTEP.pm.
- ↑ "NeXTSTEP Encoding Vector". 2000. http://www.kostis.net/charsets/nextstep.htm.
- ↑ "NeXT Character Set". Kermit. Columbia University. http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/ftp/charsets/next.txt.
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