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Technical Q&As: Carbon
Carbon is a set of C APIs that take advantage of new features and enhancements of Mac OS X, including protected memory, preemptive multitasking and dynamic resource allocation, as well as the Aqua interface. Carbon includes a set of C APIs for text input and display, managing fonts, converting text encodings, searching text, and performing sophisticated typography.
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Sorting Like the Finder (HTML)
QA1159: Shows how to sort strings like the Finder's list view.
 2004-10-27
SetFontInfoForSelection incorrect prototype (HTML)
QA1375: Describes the incorrect prototyping of the SetFontInfoForSelection API and gives a workaround.
 2004-10-04
Converting to Precomposed Unicode (HTML) ()
QA1235: Describes how to convert a string to precomposed Unicode.
 2003-02-07
Installing input methods on Mac OS X (HTML)
QA1054: Describes how to install and use input methods on Mac OS X.
 2001-09-14
Improving ATSUI Text Drawing Performance (HTML)
QA1027: Talks about one way of improving ATSUI text drawing performance.
 2001-04-17
dlsDelta field in PRAM's time zone MachineLocation record (HTML) ()
OPS21: Explains how to access and preserve the Daylight Savings state when changing the GMT.
 2001-03-26
IsCmdChar (HTML) ()
TX12: Describes the routine IsCmdChar, which is useful when testing for Command-period and command-AnyCharacter.
 1998-07-06
Translating Postscript font file names (HTML) ()
TX09: Describes how to translate a font name to a Postscript font file name.
 1997-11-17
Locating a Font's Home File (HTML) ()
Deprecated - TB18: Lists the steps necessary to find the home file of a given font.
 1996-02-15
Converting Simplified Chinese (HTML) ()
TX06: Describes how to convert Macintosh Simplified Chinese encoding into GB2312.
 1996-02-09