NeXT character set (original) (raw)

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Character encoding used on NeXT workstations

NeXTSTEP Multinational

Kermit next-multinational
Alias(es) WE8NEXTSTEP
Created by NeXT
Extends PostScript Standard Encoding
Transforms / Encodes ISO-8859-1[a]
Other related encoding(s) ETS 300 706 ISO 5426 ISO 6937, ITU T.51 ITU T.61 ITU T.101
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The NeXT character set (often aliased as NeXTSTEP encoding vector, WE8NEXTSTEP[1] or next-multinational[2]) was used by the NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP operating systems on NeXT workstations beginning in 1988. It is based on Adobe Systems' PostScript (PS) character set aka Adobe Standard Encoding where unused code points were filled up with characters from ISO 8859-1 (Latin 1), although at differing code points.[3]

The following table shows the NeXT character set. Each character is shown with a potential Unicode equivalent. Codepoints 00hex (0) to 7Fhex (127) are nearly identical to ASCII.

NeXT character set[4][5][6][3][7][8]

| | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | A | B | C | D | E | F | | | ---- | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------------------------ | -------------------------------------------------------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- | | 0x | NUL | SOH | STX | ETX | EOT | ENQ | ACK | BEL | BS | HT | LF | VT | FF | CR | SO | SI | | 1x | DLE | DC1 | DC2 | DC3 | DC4 | NAK | SYN | ETB | CAN | EM | SUB | ESC | FS | GS | RS | US | | 2x | SP | ! | " | # | $ | % | & | ’[3] | ( | ) | * | + | , | - | . | / | | 3x | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | : | ; | < | = | > | ? | | 4x | @ | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | | 5x | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z | [ | \ | ] | ^ | _ | | 6x | ‘[3] | a | b | c | d | e | f | g | h | i | j | k | l | m | n | o | | 7x | p | q | r | s | t | u | v | w | x | y | z | { | | | } | ~ | DEL | | 8x | fsp | À | Á |  | à | Ä | Å | Ç | È | É | Ê | Ë | Ì | Í | Î | Ï | | 9x | Ð | Ñ | Ò | Ó | Ô | Õ | Ö | Ù | Ú | Û | Ü | Ý | Þ | µ | × | ÷ | | Ax | © | ¡ | ¢ | £ | ⁄ | ¥ | ƒ | § | ¤ | '[3] | “ | « | ‹ | › | fi | fl | | Bx | ® | – | † | ‡ | · | ¦ | | • | ‚ | „ | ” | » | …[3] | ‰ | ¬ | ¿ | | Cx | ¹ | ˋ | ´ | ˆ | ˜ | ¯ | ˘ | ˙ | ¨ | ² | ˚[3] | ¸ | ³ | ˝ | ˛ | ˇ | | Dx | — | ± | ¼ | ½ | ¾ | à | á | â | ã | ä | å | ç | è | é | ê | ë | | Ex | ì | Æ | í | ª | î | ï | ð | ñ | Ł | Ø | Œ | º | ò | ó | ô | õ | | Fx | ö | æ | ù | ú | û | ı | ü | ý | ł | ø | œ | ß | þ | ÿ | | |

  1. ^ If the left single quotation mark and/or the modifier letter grave accent is unified with the backtick, the degree sign is unified with the high ring, and the soft hyphen is unified with the en dash. Not counting C1 control codes.

  2. ^ Baird, Cathy; Chiba, Dan; Chu, Winson; Fan, Jessica; Ho, Claire; Law, Simon; Lee, Geoff; Linsley, Peter; Matsuda, Keni; Oscroft, Tamzin; Takeda, Shige; Tanaka, Linus; Tozawa, Makoto; Trute, Barry; Tsujimoto, Mayumi; Wu, Ying; Yau, Michael; Yu, Tim; Wang, Chao; Wong, Simon; Zhang, Weiran; Zheng, Lei; Zhu, Yan; Moore, Valarie (2002) [1996]. "Appendix A: Locale Data". Oracle9i Database Globalization Support Guide (PDF) (Release 2 (9.2) ed.). Oracle Corporation. Oracle A96529-01. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-02-14. Retrieved 2017-02-14.

  3. ^ "Character sets". Kermit. Columbia University. 2000-01-01. Archived from the original on 2017-02-15. Retrieved 2017-02-15.

  4. ^ a b c d e f g "Keyboard Event Information - Encoding Vectors". NeXT Computer, Inc. 1995. Archived from the original on 2017-02-12. Retrieved 2017-02-12.

  5. ^ McGowan, Rick (1999-09-23). "NextStep Encoding to Unicode". 0.1. Unicode, Inc. Retrieved 2017-02-12.

  6. ^ Czyborra, Roman (1998-06-27). "Codepage & Co". NeXTSTEP. Archived from the original on 2016-12-07. Retrieved 2016-12-06. [1] [2]

  7. ^ Flohr, Guido (2016) [2002]. "Locale::RecodeData::NEXTSTEP - Conversion routines for NEXTSTEP". CPAN libintl-perl. Archived from the original on 2017-02-18. Retrieved 2017-02-18.

  8. ^ Kostis, Kosta (2000). "NeXTSTEP Encoding Vector". 1.20. Archived from the original on 2017-02-18. Retrieved 2017-02-18.

  9. ^ "NeXT Character Set". Kermit. Columbia University. Retrieved 2020-06-24.