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Mac OS Romanian encoding

Mac OS Romanian is a character encoding used on Apple Macintosh computers to represent the Romanian language. It is a derivative of Mac OS Roman.

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May 27, 2026
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Source
Mac OS Romanian
Alias(es)x-mac-romanian, Code page 100101
LanguageRomanian
Created byApple, Inc.
ClassificationExtended ASCII, Mac OS script
ExtendsUS-ASCII
Based onMac OS Roman

Mac OS Romanian is a character encoding used on Apple Macintosh computers to represent the Romanian language. It is a derivative of Mac OS Roman.

IBM uses code page 1285 (CCSID 1285) for Mac OS Romanian.2

Character set

Each character is shown with its equivalent Unicode code point. Only the second half of the table (code points 128–255) is shown, the first half (code points 0–127) being the same as ASCII.

Mac OS Romanian345
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
8x Ä Å Ç É Ñ Ö Ü á à â ä ã å ç é è
9x ê ë í ì î ï ñ ó ò ô ö õ ú ù û ü
Ax ° ¢ £ § ß ® © ´ ¨ Ă Ș
Bx ± ¥ μ Π π ª º Ω ă ș
Cx ¿ ¡ ¬ ƒ « » NBSP À Ã Õ Œ œ
Dx ÷ ÿ Ÿ a Ț ț
Ex · Â Ê Á Ë È Í Î Ï Ì Ó Ô
Fx b Ò Ú Û Ù ı ˆ ˜ ¯ ˘ ˙ ˚ ¸ ˝ ˛ ˇ
  Differences from MacRoman
  1. Before Mac OS 8.5, the character 0xDB mapped to currency sign (¤), Unicode character U+00A4.
  2. The character 0xF0 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.
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