Chapter 2 - Basic Text Types Reference
This chapter describes the Mac OS basic text data types, constants, and functions, which you can use to create text encoding specifications, to obtain values from existing specifications, to obtain localized names corresponding to text encoding specifications, and to obtain information about the Text Encoding Conversion Manager itself. It also includes result codes returned for both the Text Encoding Converter functions and the Unicode Converter functions.For a description of types, constants, and functions pertaining to the Text Encoding Converter, see Chapter 3, "Text Encoding Converter Reference." For a description of types, constants, and functions pertaining to the Unicode Converter, see Chapter 4, "Unicode Converter Reference."
Chapter Contents
- Basic Text Constants
- Text Encoding Base
- Text Encoding Variant
- Text Encoding Format
- Text Encoding Name Selector
- Script Manager Derivation Specifiers
- Text Encoding Conversion Manager Result Codes
- Basic Text Structures and Other Types
- Basic Text Functions
- Creating a Text Encoding Specification
- Obtaining Information From a Text Encoding Specification
- Obtaining Converter Information
- Converting Between Script Manager Values and Text Encodings