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Technical Q&As: Text & Fonts
Text manipulation consists of creating, managing, and storing text strings. Mac OS X programming interfaces provide capabilities that range from basic text input and display to sophisticated text encoding conversions.

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Converting to Precomposed Unicode (HTML) ()
QA1235: Describes how to convert a string to precomposed Unicode.
2003-02-07
IsCmdChar (HTML) ()
TX12: Describes the routine IsCmdChar, which is useful when testing for Command-period and command-AnyCharacter.
1998-07-06
Sorting Like the Finder (HTML)
QA1159: Shows how to sort strings like the Finder's list view.
2004-10-27