Mac OS Icelandic is an obsolete
character encoding
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that was used in
Apple Macintosh
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computers to represent Icelandic text. It is largely identical to
Mac OS Roman
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, except for the Icelandic special characters
Ã,
Þ and
à which have replaced typography characters.
IBM
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uses code page 1286 (
CCSID
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1286) for Mac OS Icelandic.
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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.
* Before
Mac OS 8.5
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, the character 0xDB mapped to the
currency sign
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A symbol may be positioned in various ways, acc ...
(¤), Unicode character U+00A4.
* The character 0xBB maps to
ï¬, 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
Apple logo
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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
Character sets
Icelandic
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