RFC 1345 brings 2 Macintosh charsets. You can
discover them by using grep
over the output of ‘recode -l’:
recode -l | grep -i mac
Charsets macintosh
and macintosh_ce
, as well as their aliases
mac
and macce
have CR
as their implied surface.
This charset is available in Recode under the name AtariST
.
This is the character set used on the Atari ST/TT/Falcon. This is similar
to IBM-PC
, 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 sharp s different from Greek beta.
About the end-of-line conversions: the canonical end-of-line on the
Atari is ‘\r\n’, but unlike IBM-PC
, 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 ‘\r\n’ and ‘\n’ as end
of lines. Many of the users who also have access to Unix systems prefer
‘\n’ to ease porting Unix utilities. So, for easing reversibility,
Recode tries to let ‘\r’ undisturbed through recodings.