| Kermit | next-multinational |
|---|---|
| Alias(es) | WE8NEXTSTEP |
| Created by | NeXT |
| Extends | PostScript Standard Encoding |
| Transforms / Encodes | ISO-8859-1[a] |
| Other related encodings |
TheNeXT character set (often aliased asNeXTSTEP encoding vector,WE8NEXTSTEP[1] ornext-multinational[2]) was used by theNeXTSTEP andOPENSTEP operating systems onNeXT workstations beginning in 1988. It is based onAdobe Systems' PostScript (PS) character set akaAdobe Standard Encoding where unused code points were filled up with characters fromISO 8859-1 (Latin 1), although at differing code points.[3]
The following table shows the NeXT character set. Each character is shown with a potentialUnicode equivalent. Codepoints 00hex (0) to 7Fhex (127) are nearly identical toASCII.