Solutions to Saturday Mac riddles 303

I hope that you enjoyed Saturday’s Mac Riddles, episode 303. Here are my solutions to them.

1: Harvard or Yale cipher brought emoji and Ugaritic.

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Unicode

Harvard or Yale (a university or uni) cipher (a code) brought emoji and Ugaritic (two of its supported character sets).

2: US standard for 128 Roman characters now over 60.

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ASCII

US standard (initially ASA X3.4-1963, later an ANSI standard) for 128 Roman characters (originally consisted of only 128 characters including a basic Roman alphabet) now over 60 (first published in 1963, it turns 62 years old this year).

3: Two plus 128 more came in 1989, gained a euro in 1998, and still supported.

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MacRoman

Two plus 128 more (it consists of the 128 characters in ASCII, plus 128 more including punctuation, symbols and diacritics) came in 1989 (first appeared in System 6.0.4 in that year), gained a euro in 1998 (the only change made since introduction), and still supported (it is, although now encoded in UTF-8).

The common factor

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They are text encodings that have been used in Mac OS.

I look forward to your putting alternative cases.