Mac OS Icelandic is an obsolete

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that was used in

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computers to represent Icelandic text. It is largely identical to Mac OS Roman, except for the Icelandic special characters Ý, Þ and Ð which have replaced typography characters. IBM uses code page 1286 ( CCSID 1286) for Mac OS Icelandic.

Layout

Each character is shown with its equivalent

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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

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. * Before

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, the character 0xDB mapped to the

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(¤), Unicode character U+00A4. * The character 0xBB maps to ﬁ, Unicode character U+FB01, in the TrueType Mac Icelandic fonts. * The character 0xBC maps to ﬂ, Unicode character U+FB02, in the TrueType Mac Icelandic fonts. * The character 0xF0 is a solid

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. Apple uses U+F8FF in the Corporate Private Use Area for this logo, but it is usually not supported on non-Apple platforms.

References

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