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String Services provides a full suite of fast and efficient string manipulation and conversion functionality. String Services offers seamless Unicode support and thus greatly simplifies internationalization. String Services also facilitates the sharing of string data between Carbon and Cocoa applications.

String Services This document describes how the Unicode storage of character data is optimized. It also shows how to convert strings between encodings and perform other operations with string objects.   Overview This document summarizes the benefits of Core Foundation and explains some of the key concepts, such as opaque types, reference counting, and memory management.