On 8 Dec 2015, at 12:31am, Scott Robison <scott at casaderobison.com> wrote:

> This may be true of OS X, but it not true of Mac all through history. They
> might not have been called "code pages" but Mac most definitely had
> different character sets to support different markets.

Yep.  OS 9 supported string processing and printing in different character sets.

OS X, released in the year 2000 was Unicode from the base up.  There are API 
routines to translate to and from different code pages, but you can't do string 
processing or display with an octet stream, only ASCII and Unicode.

Simon.

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