Mac OS Ukrainian is a
character encoding
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used on
Apple Macintosh
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computers prior to
Mac OS 9
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to represent texts in Cyrillic script which include the letters ‹
Ґ› and ‹ґ›, including the
Ukrainian alphabet
The Ukrainian alphabet ( uk, абе́тка, áзбука алфа́ві́т, abetka, azbuka alfavit) is the set of letters used to write Ukrainian, which is the official language of Ukraine. It is one of several national variations of the C ...
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It is a variant of the original
Mac OS Cyrillic encoding
Mac OS Cyrillic is a character encoding used on Apple Macintosh computers to represent texts in the Cyrillic script.
The original version lacked the letter Ґ, which is used in Ukrainian, although its use was limited during the Soviet era to reg ...
. Code points 162 (0xA2) representing the character ‹¢› and 182 (0xB6) representing the character ‹∂› were redefined to represent ‹Ґ› and ‹ґ›, respectively.
Since Mac OS 9, ‹Ґ› and ‹ґ› have been included in the Macintosh Cyrillic encoding.
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
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Character sets
Ukrainian
Ukrainian may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to Ukraine
* Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe
* Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine
* So ...