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Mac OS Celtic

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Mac OS Celtic
Language(s)Welsh
Created byEvertype
Current statusAdopted byApple
ClassificationExtended ASCII
ExtendsUS-ASCII
Based onMac OS Roman
Other related encoding(s)Mac OS Gaelic

Mac OS Celticis acharacter encodingused byMac OSto representWelshtext (likeISO 8859-14), replacing 14 of theMac OS Romancharacters with Welsh characters. This character set was developed byMichael Eversonand was used for the Irish localizations of Mac OS 6.0.8 and 7.1 and for the Welsh localization of Mac OS 7.1.

Layout

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The table below shows the second half of the encoding, the first half (codes 0–127) beingASCII.

Mac OS Celtic[1][2]
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
8x Ä Å Ç É Ñ Ö Ü á à â ä ã å ç é è
9x ê ë í ì î ï ñ ó ò ô ö õ ú ù û ü
Ax ° ¢ £ § ß ® © ´ ¨ Æ Ø
Bx ± ¥ µ π ª º Ω æ ø
Cx ¿ ¡ ¬ ƒ « » NBSP À Ã Õ Œ œ
Dx ÷ ÿ Ÿ ¤ Ŷ ŷ
Ex · Â Ê Á Ë È Í Î Ï Ì Ó Ô
Fx Ò Ú Û Ù ı Ý ý Ŵ ŵ
Differences fromMacRoman.
  • BeforeMac OS 8.5,the character 0xDB mapped tocurrency sign(¤), Unicode character U+00A4.
  • ^♣Before Unicode 4.1, the character 0xF0 mapped toUnicode character U+2663.

References

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  1. ^Apple, Inc.(2005-04-01)."CELTIC.TXT: Map (external version) from Mac OS Celtic character set to Unicode 2.1 and later".Unicode, Inc.
  2. ^Everson, Michael(2001-11-10)."CELTIC.TXT: Mac OS Celtic to Unicode table".Evertype.