Macintosh Font X is a
character encoding
Character encoding is the process of assigning numbers to graphical characters, especially the written characters of human language, allowing them to be stored, transmitted, and transformed using digital computers. The numerical values tha ...
which is used by
Kermit to represent text on the
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 ...
(but not by standard Mac OS fonts). It is a modification of
Mac OS Symbol to include all characters in
DEC Special Graphics and the
DEC Technical Character Set (unifying the ⎷ and √ from the Technical Character Set).
Characters at A4, A7, A9, D0, E1, and F1, along with the not sign at D8 are intended to assemble a 3x5 uppercase sigma.
See also
Macintosh Latin encoding
Macintosh Latin is an obsolete character encoding which was used by Kermit (which as of 2022 supports Unicode UTF-8, 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 ...
, another Mac OS encoding used by Kermit.
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Character sets
Latin
Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power ...