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Mac OS Greek encoding

character encoding on Macintosh computers

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ17042510 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mac OS Greek encoding (also known as MacGreek encoding or Macintosh Greek encoding) is used in Apple Macintosh computers to represent texts in the Greek language that uses the Greek script. This encoding is registered as IBM code page/CCSID 1280 and Windows code page 10006.

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The following table shows the MacGreek encoding. Each character is shown with its equivalent Unicode code point.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Mac OS Greek encoding” as character encoding on Macintosh computers. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1280—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Greek, encoding and character can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as character encoding on Macintosh computers. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q17042510. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1280.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mac OS Greek encoding” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.