Mac-Roman encoding

The Mac OS Roman character set Mac-Roman encoding is a one-byte system, traditionally used by Mac OS. In Mac OS X, it has been replaced with Unicode.

The first 128 characters are equal to the ASCII (or 'cmap' in Macintosh context), and the rest are allocated as described below.

The Mac OS Roman character set is used for the following Mac OS localizations: U.S., British, Canadian French, French, Swiss French, German, Swiss German, Italian, Swiss Italian, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Brazilian Portuguese, and the default International system.

Variants of this codepage are used for Croatian, Icelandic, Turkish, Romanian, and other encodings.

&sup1; Before Mac OS 8.5, the character 0xDB mapped to currency sign (&#xa4), but this was changed to euro currency (&#x20ac;).