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Apple's Macintosh code
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   This charset is available in `recode' under the name `Apple-Mac'.
The shortest way of specifying it in `recode' is `ap'.

   The charset is aimed towards a Macintosh micro-computer from Apple.
This is an eight bit code.  The file is the data fork only.  This
charset is fairly old in `recode', its tables were produced a long
while ago by mere inspection of a printed chart of the Macintosh codes
and glyph.

   It has `CR' as its implied surface.  This means that, if the original
end of lines have to be preserved while going out of `Apple-Mac', they
should currently be added back through the usage of a surface on the
other charset, or better, just never removed.  Here are examples for
both cases:

     recode ap..l2/cr < INPUT > OUTPUT
     recode ap/..l2 < INPUT > OUTPUT

   RFC 1345 brings into `recode' 2 other Macintosh charsets.  You can
discover them by using `grep' over the output of `recode -l':

     recode -l | grep -i mac

Charsets `macintosh' and `macintosh_ce', as well as their aliases `mac'
and `macce' also have `CR' as their implied surface.

   There are a few discrepancies between the `Apple-Mac' charset and
the very similar RFC 1345 charset `macintosh', which have not been
analysed yet, so the charsets are being kept separate for now.  This
might change in the future, and the `Apple-Mac' charset might disappear.
Wizards would be interested in comparing the output of these two
commands:

     recode -vh Apple-Mac..Latin-1
     recode -vh macintosh..Latin-1

The first command use the charset prior to RFC 1345 introduction.  Both
methods give different recodings.  These differences are annoying, the
fuzziness will have to be explained and settle down one day.

   As a side note, some people ask if there is a Macintosh port of the
`recode' program.  I'm not aware of any.  I presume that if the tool
fills a need for Macintosh users, someone will port it one of these
days?