PostScript Standard Encoding

The PostScript Standard Encoding (often spelled StandardEncoding, aliased as PostScript[1]) is one of the character sets (or encoding vectors) used by Adobe Systems' PostScript (PS) since 1984 (1982).[2] In 1995, IBM assigned code page 1276 (CCSID 1276) to this character set.[3][4] NeXT based the character set for its NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP operating systems on this one.

Character set

The following table shows the PostScript Standard Encoding. Each character is shown with a potential Unicode equivalent. Code points differing from the NeXT character set are shown boxed. Codepoints 00_hex (0) to 7F_hex (127) are nearly identical to ASCII (the characters at positions 27_hex and 60_hex reflect an earlier interpretation of the visual appearance of those ASCII characters than the interpretation that was formalized in Unicode). The upper half of the table contains punctuation and typographic characters, currency symbols, ligatured letters, a selection of modified base letters used in European languages, and a selection of diacritic marks to be used in composing accented letters.

PostScript Standard Encoding[5][6][7][8][2][9][1][10][11]

	_0	_1	_2	_3	_4	_5	_6	_7	_8	_9	_A	_B	_C	_D	_E	_F
0_	NUL 0000	SOH 0001	STX 0002	ETX 0003	EOT 0004	ENQ 0005	ACK 0006	BEL 0007	BS 0008	HT 0009	LF 000A	VT 000B	FF 000C	CR 000D	SO 000E	SI 000F
1_	DLE 0010	DC1 0011	DC2 0012	DC3 0013	DC4 0014	NAK 0015	SYN 0016	ETB 0017	CAN 0018	EM 0019	SUB 001A	ESC 001B	FS 001C	GS 001D	RS 001E	US 001F
2_	SP 0020	! 0021	" 0022	# 0023	$ 0024	% 0025	& 0026	’ 2019	( 0028	) 0029	* 002A	+ 002B	, 002C	- 002D	. 002E	/ 002F
3_	0 0030	1 0031	2 0032	3 0033	4 0034	5 0035	6 0036	7 0037	8 0038	9 0039	: 003A	; 003B	< 003C	= 003D	> 003E	? 003F
4_	@ 0040	A 0041	B 0042	C 0043	D 0044	E 0045	F 0046	G 0047	H 0048	I 0049	J 004A	K 004B	L 004C	M 004D	N 004E	O 004F
5_	P 0050	Q 0051	R 0052	S 0053	T 0054	U 0055	V 0056	W 0057	X 0058	Y 0059	Z 005A	[ 005B	\ 005C	] 005D	^ 005E	_ 005F
6_	‘ 2018	a 0061	b 0062	c 0063	d 0064	e 0065	f 0066	g 0067	h 0068	i 0069	j 006A	k 006B	l 006C	m 006D	n 006E	o 006F
7_	p 0070	q 0071	r 0072	s 0073	t 0074	u 0075	v 0076	w 0077	x 0078	y 0079	z 007A	{ 007B	| 007C	} 007D	~ 007E	DEL 007F
8_
9_
A_		¡ 00A1	¢ 00A2	£ 00A3	⁄/∕ 2044/2215	¥ 00A5	ƒ 0192	§ 00A7	¤ 00A4	' 0027	“ 201C	« 00AB	‹ 2039	› 203A	fi FB01	fl FB02
B_		– 2013	† 2020	‡ 2021	·/∙ 00B7/2219		¶ 00B6	• 2022	‚ 201A	„ 201E	” 201D	» 00BB	… 2026	‰ 2030		¿ 00BF
C_		`/ˋ 0060/02CB	´ 00B4	ˆ 02C6	˜ 02DC	¯/ˉ 00AF/02C9	˘ 02D8	˙ 02D9	¨ 00A8		˚ 02DA	¸ 00B8		˝ 02DD	˛ 02DB	ˇ 02C7
D_	— 2014
E_		Æ 00C6		ª 00AA					Ł 0141	Ø 00D8	Œ 0152	º 00BA
F_		æ 00E6				ı 0131			ł 0142	ø 00F8	œ 0153	ß 00DF

  Letter   Number   Punctuation   Symbol   Other   Undefined

See also

• Display PostScript (DPS)
• NeXT character set
• PostScript fonts

References

1. Czyborra, Roman (1998-06-27). "Codepage & Co". AdobeStandardEncoding. Archived from the original on 2016-12-07. Retrieved 2016-12-06.
2. Adobe Systems Incorporated (February 1999) [1985]. PostScript Language Reference Manual (PDF) (1st printing, 3rd ed.). Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. ISBN 0-201-37922-8. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-02-18. Retrieved 2017-02-18. (NB. This book is informally called "red book" due to its red cover.)
3. "Code page 1276 information document". Archived from the original on 2017-02-18.
4. "CCSID 1276 information document". Archived from the original on 2016-03-27.
5. Code Page CPGID 01276 (pdf) (PDF), IBM
6. Code Page CPGID 01276 (txt), IBM
7. International Components for Unicode (ICU), ibm-1276_P100-1995.ucm, 2002-12-03
8. "Adobe Standard Encoding to Unicode". 1.0. Unicode, Inc. 2011-07-12 [1995-05-05]. Retrieved 2017-02-25.
9. Adobe Systems Incorporated (1990) [1985]. PostScript Language Reference Manual (2nd ed.). Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. (NB. This edition also contains a description of Display PostScript, which is no longer discussed in the third edition.)
10. Sicherman, George (2011). "PostScript Standard Encoding". Archived from the original on 2017-02-18. Retrieved 2017-02-18.
11. Kostis, Kosta (2000). "Adobe StandardEncoding Encoding Vector". 1.20. Archived from the original on 2017-02-18. Retrieved 2017-02-18.