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Programming With the Text Encoding Conversion Manager

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Basic Text Types Reference

This chapter describes the Mac OS basic text data types, constants, and functions, which you can use to create text encoding specifications, to obtain values from existing specifications, to obtain localized names corresponding to text encoding specifications, and to obtain information about the Text Encoding Conversion Manager itself. It also includes result codes returned for both the Text Encoding Converter functions and the Unicode Converter functions.

For a description of types, constants, and functions pertaining to the Text Encoding Converter, see Text Encoding Converter Reference For a description of types, constants, and functions pertaining to the Unicode Converter, see Unicode Converter Reference

Basic Text Constants

Basic Text Structures and Other Types

Basic Text Functions