PATH Mac OS 8 and 9 Developer Documentation > Text and Other International Services > Text Encoding Conversion Manager
Programming With the Text Encoding Conversion Manager

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File Requirements

Most documents created on a Mac OS-based system use a richer text model than pure Unicode, so the emphasis here is on easy interchange with other platforms. In particular, an application should be able to

• import and export Unicode plain text files from other platforms with no data loss

• easily import a Unicode plain text file into a rich text environment

File Types

File Content

Creating Content

Reading Content