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{{short description|Character encoding on Macintosh computers}}

'''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]].<ref name=IBM/> This encoding is registered as IBM code page/[[CCSID]] 1280<ref name="IBM"/><ref>{{cite web|title=CCSID 1280 information document|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141129224532/http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/ccsid/ccsid1280.html|archive-date=2014-11-29|url=http://www-01.ibm.com/software/globalization/ccsid/ccsid1280.html}}</ref> and Windows code page 10006.<ref name=DIS/>

==Code page layout==

The following table shows the MacGreek encoding. Each character is shown with its equivalent [[Unicode]] code point. Only the second half of the table (code points 128&ndash;255) is shown, the first half (code points 0&ndash;127) being the same as [[ASCII]].

{|{{chset-table-header1|MacGreek encoding<ref name=UNICODE/><ref>{{Citation|title=Code Page CPGID 01280 (pdf)|url=ftphttps://ftppublic.softwaredhe.ibm.com/software/globalization/gcoc/attachments/CP01280.pdf|publisher=IBM}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|title=Code Page CPGID 01280 (txt)|url=ftphttps://ftppublic.softwaredhe.ibm.com/software/globalization/gcoc/attachments/CP01280.txt|publisher=IBM}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|title=International Components for Unicode (ICU), macos-6_2-10.4.ucm|url=https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/blob/master/icu4c/source/data/mappings/macos-6_2-10.4.ucm|date=2005-09-26}}</ref>}}

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