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Documentation > Mac OS 8 and 9 > Text and Other International Services > Text Services Manager

The Text Services Manager is the part of the Mac OS that provides an environment for applications to use text services such as input methods. The Text Services Manager handles communication between client applications that request text services and the software modules, known as text service components, that provide them. The Text Services Manager presents two separate programming interfaces to the features it provides: one for applications and another for text service components.


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		Text Services Manager Reference This document contains the most up-to-date information available for the Text Services Manager APIs.
		Understanding Text Input and the Text Services Manager in Carbon This document discusses the changes involved with handling text input for applications and with supporting Carbon in text service components.


		Supporting Unicode Input (PDF) This preliminary draft document describes how applications and input methods can support Unicode text input by using Text Services Manager 1.5 and Unicode Utilities.

		Inside Macintosh: Text (Chapter 7 - Text Services Manager) This System 7 document describes Macintosh text-handling interfaces. See Chapter 7 for a discussion of Text Services Manager 1.0.