Manager: Text Utilities


Carbon supports the majority of Text Utilities. However, many obsolete functions (such as those prefixed with iu or IU ) are not supported.

Unsupported  C2PStr

Not available in Carbon.

Unsupported  c2pstr

You should instead use CopyCStringToPascal. Not available in Carbon.

Supported  c2pstrcpy

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Supported  CompareString

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Supported  CompareText

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Supported  CopyCStringToPascal

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Supported  CopyPascalStringToC

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Under Evaluation  DisposeIndexToStringUPP

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Supported  EqualString

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Unsupported  equalstring

Use EqualString instead. Not available in Carbon.

Supported  ExtendedToString

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Supported  FindScriptRun

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Unsupported  FindWord

Use FindWordBreaks instead. Not available in Carbon.

Supported  FindWordBreaks

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Supported  FormatRecToString

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Supported  GetIndString

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Unsupported  getindstring

Use GetIndString instead. Not available in Carbon.

Supported  GetString

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Supported  IdenticalString

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Supported  IdenticalText

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Under Evaluation  IndexToStringProcPtr

Under Evaluation  InvokeIndexToStringUPP

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Unsupported  IUCompPString

Use CompareString instead. Not available in Carbon.

Unsupported  iucomppstring

Use CompareString instead. Not available in Carbon.

Unsupported  IUCompString

Use CompareString instead. Not available in Carbon.

Unsupported  iucompstring

You should instead use CompareString. Not available in Carbon.

Unsupported  IUEqualPString

Use IdenticalString instead. Not available in Carbon.

Unsupported  iuequalpstring

Use IdenticalString instead. Not available in Carbon.

Unsupported  IUEqualString

Use IdenticalString instead. Not available in Carbon.

Unsupported  iuequalstring

You should instead use IdenticalString. Not available in Carbon.

Unsupported  IULangOrder

Use LanguageOrder instead. Not available in Carbon.

Unsupported  IUMagIDPString

Use IdenticalText instead. Not available in Carbon.

Unsupported  IUMagIDString

Use IdenticalText instead. Not available in Carbon.

Unsupported  IUMagPString

Use CompareText instead. Not available in Carbon.

Unsupported  IUMagString

Use CompareText instead. Not available in Carbon.

Unsupported  IUScriptOrder

Use Script Order instead. Not available in Carbon.

Unsupported  IUStringOrder

Use StringOrder instead. Not available in Carbon.

Unsupported  iustringorder

Use StringOrder instead. Not available in Carbon.

Unsupported  IUTextOrder

Use TextOrder instead. Not available in Carbon.

Supported  LanguageOrder

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Supported  LowercaseText

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Unsupported  LowerText

Use LowerCaseText instead. Not available in Carbon.

Unsupported  LwrText

Use LowerCaseText instead. Not available in Carbon.

Supported  Munger

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Under Evaluation  NewIndexToStringUPP

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Supported  NewString

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Unsupported  newstring

Use NewString instead. Not available in Carbon.

Unsupported  NFindWord

Use FindWordBreaks instead. Not available in Carbon.

Supported  NumToString

Use NumToString instead. Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Unsupported  numtostring

Use NumToString instead. Not available in Carbon.

Unsupported  P2CStr

Not available in Carbon.

Unsupported  p2cstr

You should instead use CopyPascalStringToC. Not available in Carbon.

Supported  p2cstrcpy

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Supported  RelString

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Not Recommended  relstring

Use RelString instead. Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Supported  ReplaceText

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Supported  ScriptOrder

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Supported  SetString

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Unsupported  setstring

Use SetString instead Not available in Carbon.

Supported  StringOrder

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Supported  StringToExtended

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Supported  StringToFormatRec

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Supported  StringToNum

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Unsupported  stringtonum

User StringToNum instead. Not available in Carbon.

Supported  StripDiacritics

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Unsupported  StripText

Use StripDiacritics instead. Not available in Carbon.

Unsupported  StripUpperText

You should instead use UppercaseStripDiacritics. Not available in Carbon.

Supported  StyledLineBreak

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Supported  TextOrder

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Supported  TruncString

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Supported  TruncText

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Under Evaluation  TypeSelectClear

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Under Evaluation  TypeSelectCompare

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Under Evaluation  TypeSelectFindItem

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Under Evaluation  TypeSelectNewKey

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Supported  UppercaseStripDiacritics

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Supported  UppercaseText

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Supported  UpperString

Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Not Recommended  upperstring

Use UpperString instead. Available in Mac OS 8.1 and later when Carbon 1.0.2 or later is present.

Unsupported  UpperText

Use UppercaseText instead. Not available in Carbon.

Unsupported  UprText

Use UppercaseText instead. Not available in Carbon.

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