Mac OS Cyrillic encoding

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Mac OS Cyrillic
Alias(es)x-mac-cyrillic
Original version: Code page 1283, Code page 10007
Language(s) Russian, Bulgarian, Belarusian, Macedonian, Serbian (in Cyrillic script)
Euro update: Ukrainian
Created by Apple, Inc.
Classification Extended ASCII, Mac OS script
Extends US-ASCII
Based onEuro update based on MacUkrainian, in turn based on original version. Non-letter characters mostly from Mac OS Roman.

Mac OS Cyrillic is a character encoding used on Apple Macintosh computers to represent texts in the Cyrillic script.

The original version lacked the letter Ґ, which is used in Ukrainian, although its use was limited during the Soviet era to regions outside Ukraine. The closely related MacUkrainian resolved this, differing only by replacing two less commonly used symbols with its uppercase and lowercase forms. The euro sign update of the Mac OS scripts incorporated these changes back into MacCyrillic.

Other related code pages include Mac OS Turkic Cyrillic and Mac OS Barents Cyrillic, introduced by Michael Everson in fonts for languages unsupported by standard MacCyrillic.

Layout

Each character is shown with its equivalent Unicode code point and its decimal 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 Mac OS Roman.

Mac OS Cyrillic [1] [2]
0123456789ABCDEF
8xАБВГДЕЖЗИЙКЛМНОП
9xРСТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ
Ax†°Ґ£§•І®©™Ђђ≠Ѓѓ
Bx∞±≤≥іµґЈЄєЇїЉљЊњ
CxјЅ¬√ƒ≈∆«»… NBSP ЋћЌќѕ
Dx–—“”‘’÷„ЎўЏџ№Ёёя
Exабвгдежзийклмноп
Fxрстуфхцчшщъыьэю€
  The following code points have been redefined since the original definition of the Macintosh Cyrillic encoding: [1]
A2B6FF
Macintosh Cyrillic before Mac OS 9.0
also Microsoft code page 10007 [3] and IBM code page/CCSID 1283 [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] 		¢∂¤
Macintosh Ukrainian before Mac OS 9.0
also Microsoft code page 10017 [9] and FreeDOS code page 58627 [10] 		Ґґ
Macintosh Cyrillic since Mac OS 9.0 €

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References

  1. 1 2 Apple, Inc (2005-04-05) [1995-04-15]. "CYRILLIC.TXT: Map (external version) from Mac OS Cyrillic character set to Unicode 2.1 and later". Unicode, Inc. Retrieved 2011-10-12.
  2. ↑ International Components for Unicode (ICU), ibm-1132_P100-1998.ucm, 2002-12-03
  3. ↑ "Code Page 10007 Macintosh Cyrillic". Microsoft. 6 February 2008. Retrieved 2011-10-12.
  4. ↑ "Code Page 01283" (PDF). IBM. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2015-07-08. Retrieved 2020-01-29.
  5. ↑ "Code page 1283 information document". Archived from the original on 2016-03-17.
  6. ↑ "CCSID 1283 information document". Archived from the original on 2016-03-27.
  7. ↑ Code Page CPGID 01283 (pdf) (PDF), IBM
  8. ↑ Code Page CPGID 01283 (txt), IBM
  9. ↑ "Code Page Identifiers - Win32 apps | Microsoft Docs". 7 January 2021.
  10. ↑ "CPIDOS - CPI files (Code Page Information) Pack v3.0 - DOS codepages".
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