Inside Macintosh: Programming With the Text Encoding Conversion Manager /

Chapter 3 - Text Encoding Converter Reference / Text Encoding Converter Structures and Other Types

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TECObjectRef

When making a text conversion, the Text Encoding Converter requires a reference to a converter object that indicates how to accomplish the conversion. Functions, such as TECCreateConverter (page 91), that create a converter object return this reference, which you can then pass to other functions when converting text. A converter object reference is defined by the TECObjectRef data type:

typedef struct OpaqueTECObjectRef* TECObjectRef;

The structure of the OpaqueTECObjectRef data type is private, and a converter object is not accessible directly.