Mac OS Ogham is a
character encoding
Character encoding is the process of assigning numbers to Graphics, graphical character (computing), characters, especially the written characters of Language, human language, allowing them to be Data storage, stored, Data communication, transmi ...
for representing
Ogham text on
Apple Macintosh
The Mac (known as Macintosh until 1999) is a family of personal computers designed and marketed by Apple Inc. Macs are known for their ease of use and minimalist designs, and are popular among students, creative professionals, and software en ...
computers. It is a superset of the
Irish Standard
The National Standards Authority of Ireland (NSAI) is the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) member body for the Republic of Ireland. The NSAI is also a member of the European Organisation for Technical Approvals.
The NSAI wa ...
I.S. 434:1999 character encoding for Ogham (which is registered as ISO-IR-208),
adding some punctuation characters from
Mac OS Roman. It is not an official Mac OS Codepage.
Layout
Each character is shown with its equivalent
Unicode
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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
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.
References
Character sets
Ogham
Ogham
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