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.