Mac OS Keyboard encoding

Represent keyboard symbols

Mac OS Keyboard is an encoding used in Classic Mac OS to represent keyboard symbols.

Character set

Mac OS Keyboard[1]
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E F
0x NUL ⇥ ⇤ ⌤ ⇧ ⌃ ⌥ BS ␣ ⌦ ↩ ↪ CR 🖉[a]
1x ⇣ ⌘ ✓ ◆ * ⌫ ⇠ ⇡ ⇢ ⎋ ⌧
2x  SP 
3x 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
4x F
5x
6x ␣ ⇞ ⇪ ← → ↖ ? ⃝ ↑ ↘ ↓ ⇟ ❘⃝ F1
7x F2 F3 F4 F5 F6 F7 F8 F9 F10 F11 F12
8x F13 F14 F15 ⎈ ⎇ ⏏
9x
Ax
Bx
Cx
Dx
Ex
Fx
  • ^* 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.
  1. ^ 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.

References

  1. ^ "KEYBOARD.TXT". Apple Inc. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
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