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Programming With the Text Encoding Conversion Manager

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Unicode Converter 68K Static Libraries

For those of you who do not want to use the Code Fragment Manager (CFM) 68K version of the Unicode Converter, a 68K static library version of the Unicode Converter and Basic Text functions is available for Text Encoding Converter Manager 1.3 and later.

The static libraries are provided for you to link directly into your applications rather than relying on operating system support; the shared libraries that require CFM are distributed with Mac OS, beginning with Mac OS 8.

These static libraries use resources from the Text Encoding Converter extension and from the files in the Text Encodings folder, so both of these must be present whether you use the CFM 68K version of the Unicode Converter or the 68K shared libraries.

To use the static libraries, install the full shared library version comprised of the table files and extension. If you use the 68K static libraries, explicitly initialize and terminate the Unicode Converter using its functions provided for this purpose.