NeXT character set

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]

NeXTSTEP Multinational

Kermit	next-multinational
Alias(es)	WE8NEXTSTEP
Created by	NeXT
Extends	PostScript Standard Encoding
Transforms / Encodes	ISO-8859-1[lower-alpha 1]
Other related encoding(s)	ETS 300 706 ISO 5426 ISO 6937, ITU T.51 ITU T.61 ITU T.101
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Character set

The following table shows the NeXT character set. Each character is shown with a potential Unicode equivalent. Codepoints 00_hex (0) to 7F_hex (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

Â

Ã

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

  Differences from Adobe Standard Encoding

See also

• Display PostScript (DPS)

Footnotes

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.

References

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