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<h2 class="chapter">11 Other micro-computer charsets</h2>

<a name="index-NeXT-charsets"></a>
<p>The <code>NeXT</code> charset, which used to be especially provided in releases of
<code>recode</code> before 3.5, has been integrated since as one RFC&nbsp;1345<!-- /@w --> table.
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="#Apple_002dMac" accesskey="1">Apple-Mac</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Apple&rsquo;s Macintosh code
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<tr><td align="left" valign="top">&bull; <a href="#AtariST" accesskey="2">AtariST</a>:</td><td>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td><td align="left" valign="top">Atari ST code
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<h3 class="section">11.1 Apple&rsquo;s Macintosh code</h3>

<a name="index-Apple_002dMac"></a>
<a name="index-Macintosh-charset"></a>
<p>This charset is available in <code>recode</code> under the name <code>Apple-Mac</code>.
The shortest way of specifying it in <code>recode</code> is <code>ap</code>.
</p>
<p>The charset is aimed towards a Macintosh micro-computer from Apple.
This is an eight bit code.  The file is the data fork only.  This charset
is fairly old in <code>recode</code>, its tables were produced a long while ago
by mere inspection of a printed chart of the Macintosh codes and glyph.
</p>
<a name="index-CR-surface_002c-in-Macintosh-charsets"></a>
<p>It has <code>CR</code> as its implied surface.  This means that, if the original
end of lines have to be preserved while going out of <code>Apple-Mac</code>, they
should currently be added back through the usage of a surface on the other
charset, or better, just never removed.  Here are examples for both cases:
</p>
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<pre class="example">recode ap..l2/cr &lt; <var>input</var> &gt; <var>output</var>
recode ap/..l2 &lt; <var>input</var> &gt; <var>output</var>
</pre></div>

<p>RFC&nbsp;1345<!-- /@w --> brings into <code>recode</code> 2 other Macintosh charsets.  You can
discover them by using <code>grep</code> over the output of &lsquo;<samp>recode -l</samp>&rsquo;:
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example">recode -l | grep -i mac
</pre></div>

<a name="index-macintosh_002c-a-charset_002c-and-its-aliases"></a>
<a name="index-macintosh_005fce_002c-and-its-aliases"></a>
<a name="index-mac-1"></a>
<a name="index-macce-1"></a>
<p>Charsets <code>macintosh</code> and <code>macintosh_ce</code>, as well as their aliases
<code>mac</code> and <code>macce</code> also have <code>CR</code> as their implied surface.
</p>
<p>There are a few discrepancies between the <code>Apple-Mac</code> charset and
the very similar RFC&nbsp;1345<!-- /@w --> charset <code>macintosh</code>, which have not been
analysed yet, so the charsets are being kept separate for now.  This might
change in the future, and the <code>Apple-Mac</code> charset might disappear.
Wizards would be interested in comparing the output of these two commands:
</p>
<div class="example">
<pre class="example">recode -vh Apple-Mac..Latin-1
recode -vh macintosh..Latin-1
</pre></div>

<p>The first command use the charset prior to RFC&nbsp;1345<!-- /@w --> introduction.
Both methods give different recodings.  These differences are annoying,
the fuzziness will have to be explained and settle down one day.
</p>
<a name="index-recode_002c-a-Macintosh-port"></a>
<p>As a side note, some people ask if there is a Macintosh port of the
<code>recode</code> program.  I&rsquo;m not aware of any.  I presume that if the tool
fills a need for Macintosh users, someone will port it one of these days?
</p>
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<h3 class="section">11.2 Atari ST code</h3>

<a name="index-AtariST"></a>
<p>This charset is available in <code>recode</code> under the name <code>AtariST</code>.
</p>
<p>This is the character set used on the Atari ST/TT/Falcon.  This is similar
to <code>IBM-PC</code>, but differs in some details: it includes some more accented
characters, the graphic characters are mostly replaced by Hebrew characters,
and there is a true German <kbd>sharp s</kbd> different from Greek <kbd>beta</kbd>.
</p>
<p>About the end-of-line conversions: the canonical end-of-line on the
Atari is &lsquo;<samp>\r\n</samp>&rsquo;, but unlike <code>IBM-PC</code>, the OS makes no
difference between text and binary input/output; it is up to the
application how to interpret the data.  In fact, most of the libraries
that come with compilers can grok both &lsquo;<samp>\r\n</samp>&rsquo; and &lsquo;<samp>\n</samp>&rsquo; as end
of lines.  Many of the users who also have access to Unix systems prefer
&lsquo;<samp>\n</samp>&rsquo; to ease porting Unix utilities.  So, for easing reversibility,
<code>recode</code> tries to let &lsquo;<samp>\r</samp>&rsquo; undisturbed through recodings.
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