This is mainly a maintenance release. Several bugs have been fixed but few features have been added.
One significant change is the decision to drop static library support. If for any reason you require further development of TEC in this form, please contact us as soon as possible.
Included in this release are the latest version of the software, headers, libraries, plus two sample applications along with all source code. HTML versions of the documentation updated with the latest changes will be forthcoming on Apple's Developer Technical Publications site:
<http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macos8/>.
What's New
* Improved stability and bug fixes (including several related to the handling of encoding variants introduced with EURO SIGN support in Mac OS 8.5).
* Added two fields to the TECInfo struct filled by TECGetInfo. These fields give the minimum and maximum version found in the 'vers' resources of the the files in the Text Encodings folder. Applications can check this to verify correct TEC installation.
* Added explicit EURO SIGN and CURRENCY SIGN variants for all of the Mac OS encodings in which CURRENCY SIGN was replaced with EURO SIGN (Croatian, Icelandic, Icelandic True Type, Roman, Romanian, VT100). In addition, each of these encodings has a default variant which will be treated as the CURRENCY SIGN variant on pre-8.5 systems and as the EURO SIGN variant on 8.5 and later systems. ResolveDefaultTextEncoding maps the default variant to the correct explicit variant.
* Table changes related to the EURO SIGN & CURRENCY SIGN variants.
Please consult the release notes documents for full details of new additions, mapping changes, and bug fixes.
