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]

Character set

The following table shows the NeXT character set. Each character is shown with a potential Unicode equivalent. Code points differing from Adobe Standard Encoding are shown boxed. 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
0_	NUL 0000	SOH 0001	STX 0002	ETX 0003	EOT 0004	ENQ 0005	ACK 0006	BEL 0007	BS 0008	HT 0009	LF 000A	VT 000B	FF 000C	CR 000D	SO 000E	SI 000F
1_	DLE 0010	DC1 0011	DC2 0012	DC3 0013	DC4 0014	NAK 0015	SYN 0016	ETB 0017	CAN 0018	EM 0019	SUB 001A	ESC 001B	FS 001C	GS 001D	RS 001E	US 001F
2_	SP 0020	! 0021	" 0022	# 0023	$ 0024	% 0025	& 0026	’[3] 2019	( 0028	) 0029	* 002A	+ 002B	, 002C	- 002D	. 002E	/ 002F
3_	0 0030	1 0031	2 0032	3 0033	4 0034	5 0035	6 0036	7 0037	8 0038	9 0039	: 003A	; 003B	< 003C	= 003D	> 003E	? 003F
4_	@ 0040	A 0041	B 0042	C 0043	D 0044	E 0045	F 0046	G 0047	H 0048	I 0049	J 004A	K 004B	L 004C	M 004D	N 004E	O 004F
5_	P 0050	Q 0051	R 0052	S 0053	T 0054	U 0055	V 0056	W 0057	X 0058	Y 0059	Z 005A	[ 005B	\ 005C	] 005D	^ 005E	_ 005F
6_	‘[3] 2018	a 0061	b 0062	c 0063	d 0064	e 0065	f 0066	g 0067	h 0068	i 0069	j 006A	k 006B	l 006C	m 006D	n 006E	o 006F
7_	p 0070	q 0071	r 0072	s 0073	t 0074	u 0075	v 0076	w 0077	x 0078	y 0079	z 007A	{ 007B	| 007C	} 007D	~ 007E	DEL 007F
8_	nbsp/fsp 00A0/2007	À 00C0	Á 00C1	Â 00C2	Ã 00C3	Ä 00C4	Å 00C5	Ç 00C7	È 00C8	É 00C9	Ê 00CA	Ë 00CB	Ì 00CC	Í 00CD	Î 00CE	Ï 00CF
9_	Ð 00D0	Ñ 00D1	Ò 00D2	Ó 00D3	Ô 00D4	Õ 00D5	Ö 00D6	Ù 00D9	Ú 00DA	Û 00DB	Ü 00DC	Ý 00DD	Þ 00DE	µ 00B5	× 00D7	÷ 00F7
A_	© 00A9	¡ 00A1	¢ 00A2	£ 00A3	⁄ 2044	¥ 00A5	ƒ 0192	§ 00A7	¤ 00A4	'[3] 0027	“ 201C	« 00AB	‹ 2039	› 203A	fi FB01	fl FB02
B_	® 00AE	– 2013	† 2020	‡ 2021	· 00B7	¦ 00A6	¶ 00B6	• 2022	‚ 201A	„ 201E	” 201D	» 00BB	…[3] 2026	‰ 2030	¬ 00AC	¿ 00BF
C_	¹ 00B9	ˋ 02CB	´ 00B4	ˆ 02C6	˜ 02DC	¯ 00AF	˘ 02D8	˙ 02D9	¨ 00A8	² 00B2	˚[3] 02DA	¸ 00B8	³ 00B3	˝ 02DD	˛ 02DB	ˇ 02C7
D_	— 2014	± 00B1	¼ 00BC	½ 00BD	¾ 00BE	à 00E0	á 00E1	â 00E2	ã 00E3	ä 00E4	å 00E5	ç 00E7	è 00E8	é 00E9	ê 00EA	ë 00EB
E_	ì 00EC	Æ 00C6	í 00ED	ª 00AA	î 00EE	ï 00EF	ð 00F0	ñ 00F1	Ł 0141	Ø 00D8	Œ 0152	º 00BA	ò 00F2	ó 00F3	ô 00F4	õ 00F5
F_	ö 00F6	æ 00E6	ù 00F9	ú 00FA	û 00FB	ı 0131	ü 00FC	ý 00FD	ł 0142	ø 00F8	œ 0153	ß 00DF	þ 00FE	ÿ 00FF

  Letter   Number   Punctuation   Symbol   Other   Undefined   Differences from Adobe Standard Encoding

See also

• Display PostScript (DPS)

References

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