Macintosh Latin is an obsolete

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 ...

which was used by Kermit (which as of 2022 supports Unicode

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, though not UTF-16) to represent text on the

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(but not by standard Mac OS fonts). It is a modification of Mac OS Icelandic to include all characters in

ISO/IEC 8859-1 ISO/IEC 8859-1:1998, ''Information technology — 8-bit single-byte coded graphic character sets — Part 1: Latin alphabet No. 1'', is part of the ISO/IEC 8859 series of ASCII-based standard character encodings, first edition published in ...

DEC MCS The Multinational Character Set (DMCS or MCS) is a character encoding created in 1983 by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) for use in the popular VT220 computer terminal, terminal. It was an 8-bit extension of ASCII that added accented character ...

, the

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, and a Dutch ISO 646 variant (with ÿ or ij being a substitute for ĳ). 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.

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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 ASCII ( ), abbreviated from American Standard Code for Information Interchange, is a character encoding standard for electronic communication. ASCII codes represent text in computers, telecommunications equipment, and other devices. Because of ...

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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 of the ...

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