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11.2 Atari ST code

This charset is available in recode under the name AtariST.

This is the character set used on the Atari ST/TT/Falcon. This is similar to IBM-PC, but differs in some details: it includes some more accented characters, the graphic characters are mostly replaced by Hebrew characters, and there is a true German sharp s different from Greek beta.

About the end-of-line conversions: the canonical end-of-line on the Atari is `\r\n', but unlike IBM-PC, the OS makes no difference between text and binary input/output; it is up to the application how to interpret the data. In fact, most of the libraries that come with compilers can grok both `\r\n' and `\n' as end of lines. Many of the users who also have access to Unix systems prefer `\n' to ease porting Unix utilities. So, for easing reversibility, recode tries to let `\r' undisturbed through recodings.


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