Technote TE 26

June 1993

Introduction

Inside Macintosh: Text is the best documentation on Macintosh text handling (especially its international aspects) that you've ever had, but it focuses on the functionality available in System 7.1. Many of the features documented in the book were newly introduced in System 7.0 or even in System 7.1. If your software has to be able to run on System 7.0 and System 6.0.7, you will have to use some older, now obsolete routines, that are no longer documented in Inside Macintosh: Text, or fill in some gaps by writing your own code.

This technical note gives you an overview of the trouble areas. The idea is that you design or internationalize your software using the information in Inside Macintosh: Text (which, after all, is the most coherent documentation available), and then check this Technical Note to find out where you have to add code in order to be able to run on older system software.

If your software already makes use of the old Script Manager and International Utilities calls, you may want to check the appendix "Renamed and Relocated Text Routines" in Inside Macintosh: Text to find out which new routines you can take advantage of in System 7.1.

Further Reference:

• * Inside Macintosh: Text
• * Inside Macintosh, Volume I, The International Utilities Package
• * Inside Macintosh, Volume V, The Script Manager
• * Inside Macintosh, Volume VI, The Font Manager
• * Inside Macintosh, Volume VI, Worldwide Software Overview
• * Inside Macintosh, Volume VI, TextEdit
• * Macintosh Technical Note: "TE 12 - Script Manager's Pixel2Char"
• * Macintosh Worldwide Development: Guide to System Software (beta draft)

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