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2. Mac OS Keyboard encoding - Wikipedia

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   ^* The character 0x14 is a solid Apple logo. Apple uses U+F8FF in the Corporate Private Use Area for this logo, but it is usually not supported on non-Apple platforms. ^ The addition of U+1F589 to Unicode postdates the creation of Apple's mapping file, which maps this character to the Private Use Area as U+F802.

3. Mac OS Roman - Wikipedia

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   Mac OS Roman is an extension of the original Macintosh character set, which encoded 217 characters. [1] Full support for Mac OS Roman first appeared in System 6.0.4 , released in 1989, [ 2 ] and the encoding is still supported in current versions of macOS , though the standard character encoding is now UTF-8 .

4. Character encoding - Wikipedia

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   Punched tape with the word "Wikipedia" encoded in ASCII.Presence and absence of a hole represents 1 and 0, respectively; for example, W is encoded as 1010111.. Character encoding is the process of assigning numbers to graphical characters, especially the written characters of human language, allowing them to be stored, transmitted, and transformed using computers. [1]

5. Unicode input - Wikipedia

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   Unicode input is method to add a specific Unicode character to a computer file; it is a common way to input characters not directly supported by a physical keyboard. Characters can be entered either by selecting them from a display, by typing a certain sequence of keys on a physical keyboard, or by drawing the symbol by hand on touch-sensitive ...

6. Extended ASCII - Wikipedia

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   Apple Computer introduced their own eight-bit extended ASCII codes in Mac OS, such as Mac OS Roman. The Apple LaserWriter also introduced the Postscript character set. Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) developed the Multinational Character Set, which had fewer characters but more letter and diacritic combinations.

7. Spinning pinwheel - Wikipedia

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   Problems with the virtual memory system—such as slow paging caused by a spun-down hard disk or disk read-errors—will cause the wait cursor to appear across multiple applications, until the hard disk and virtual memory system recover. Instruments is an application that comes with the Mac OS X Developer Tools. Along with its other functions ...

8. Option key - Wikipedia

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   The Option key, ⌥, is a modifier key present on Apple keyboards. It is located between the Control key and the Command key on a typical Mac keyboard. There are two Option keys on modern (as of 2020) Mac desktop and notebook keyboards, one on each side of the space bar. (As of 2005, some laptops had only one, in order to make room for the ...

9. Fonts on Macintosh - Wikipedia

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   In Mac OS X 10.3 ("Panther"), a font called Apple Symbols was introduced. It complements the set of symbols from Lucida Grande, but also contains glyphs only accessible by glyph ID (that is, they have not been assigned Unicode code points). A hidden font called .Keyboard contains 92 visible glyphs, most of which appear on Apple keyboards.