US EditionA brief history of text on the Mac
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A brief history of text on the Mac
When the Mac 128K was launched, the computing world was quite happy working with text composed using single-byte characters, and the full 256 characters of Extended ASCII seemed quite sufficient. In those days, encoding text for each language was based on its code page, a different set of 256 characters according to that language’s needs and conventions. The Mac’s initial version of Extended ASCII became its standard Mac OS Roman encoding by Sys…
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