Apple
Type Services for Unicode Imaging (ATSUI)
Your
application can use ATSUI to draw and print Unicode text. ATSUI
automatically handles many aspects of text display, including
simple and sophisticated typography and line layout. |
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Date,
Time, and Measurement Utilities
You
can use the Date, Time, and Measurement Utilities to obtain
and change information about the current date, time, geographic
location, time zone, and units of measurement. The Date, Time,
and Measurement Utilities return this information in a format
that is best suited to the current writing system, making it
easier for you to localize your application. |
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Dictionary
Manager
The
Dictionary Manager is the part of the Mac OS that allows you
to create dictionaries for input methods and other text services
that let the user enter, format, and process text. |
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Font
Manager
The
Font Manager keeps track of all fonts available to an application.
You can use the Font Manager to determine the characteristics
of a font, change certain font settings, favor outline fonts
over bitmapped fonts, and manipulate fonts in memory. With Mac
OS 9 and Carbon 1.0, additions to the Font Manager API now allow
support for more comprehensive font management: listing, installing,
activating, and deactivating font files and maintaining a repository
of font data. |
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FontSync
FontSync
provides a common method for identifying fonts based upon the
content of the font, rather than just the font name, as a document
is moved from machine to machine. Your application can use FontSync
to compare fonts used on different machines, thus helping the
user minimize font mismatch errors. |
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Keyboard
and International Resources
The
keyboard resources specify how keyboard input is converted to
text for a particular writing system, language, or region. The
international resources specify text handling and display information
for a particular writing system, language, or region, including
conventions for numeric formats |
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Locales
Locales
provide a way for you to indicate the language and region to
use for locale-sensitive text operations such as collation,
text-break determination, and formatting of dates, times, and
numbers. |
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Multilingual
Text Editor
Multilingual
Text Editor (MLTE) supplies a programming interface for creating
and editing Unicode text documents. MLTE is similar to TextEdit,
however MLTE provides enhanced facilities such as document-wide
tabs, full justification of text, support for more than 32K
of text, drag and drop support, built-in scroll bar handling
and printing support, support for inline input, support for
advanced ATSUI font features, and support for one level of undo. |
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QuickDraw
Text
Your
application makes QuickDraw calls to write text to the screen
or to a printer. QuickDraw text allows you to set the characteristics
of the drawing environment, draw text, measure the width of
text, lay out lines of text, determine caret positions, and
highlight text. |
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Script
Manager
The
Script Manager is at the center of the Macintosh script management
system. It initializes script systems and makes them available
to applications; it maintains important data structures and
provides a standard application interface to script systems;
it supports switching text input among different script systems;
and it provides several text-manipulation services. |
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TextEdit
TextEdit
is a simple text-processing service that provides basic text-handling
for small amounts of text. |
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Text
Encoding Conversion Manager
The
Text Encoding Conversion Manager provides two facilities—the
Text Encoding Converter and the Unicode Converter—that
your application can use to handle text encoding conversion
on the Mac OS. |
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Text
Services Manager
The
Text Services Manager is the part of the Mac OS that provides
an environment for applications to use text services such as
input methods. The Text Services Manager handles communication
between client applications that request text services and the
software modules, known as text service components, that provide
them. The Text Services Manager presents two separate programming
interfaces to the features it provides: one for applications
and another for text service components. |
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Text
Utilities
Text
Utilities are an integrated API for performing a variety of
operations on text, ranging from sorting strings to finding
word boundaries. Text Utilities work in conjunction with the
Macintosh script management system and can take into account
the differences in text-handling among script systems. If you
use the Text Utilities, you can handle text operations in a
manner that is transportable to different parts of the world. |
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Unicode
Utilities
Unicode
Utilities allow applications and text service components (such
as input methods) to perform various operations on Unicode text,
for example, Unicode key translation. Resources defined for
use with Unicode Utilities permit control of Unicode-related
text behavior, such as the specification of Unicode keyboard
layouts. |
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Mac OS 8 and 9 Developer Documentation > Text and Other International Services