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The Text Services Manager is the part of the Mac OS that provides an environment for applications to use text services such as input methods. The Text Services Manager handles communication between client applications that request text services and the software modules, known as text service components, that provide them. The Text Services Manager presents two separate programming interfaces to the features it provides: one for applications and another for text service components.

Text Services Manager Reference This document provides a complete reference to the Text Services Manager APIs.       Supporting Unicode Input [PDF] This preliminary draft document describes how applications and input methods can support Unicode text input by using Unicode Utilities and Text Services Manager 1.5.