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Programming With the Text Encoding Conversion Manager

TECGetDirectTextEncodingConversions

Returns the types of direct conversions the Text Encoding Converter supports in its current configuration.

pascal OSStatus TECGetDirectTextEncodingConversions ( TECConversionInfo directConversions[], ItemCount maxDirectConversions, ItemCount *actualDirectConversions);

directConversions[]: An array composed of text encoding conversion information structures, each of which specifies a set of source and destination encodings. On return, each structure indicates one type of conversion the Text Encoding Converter supports. See TECConversionInfo for more information. To determine how large an array to allocate, use the function TECCountDirectTextEncodingConversions.
maxDirectConversions: The maximum number of text encoding conversion information structures that the directConversions array can contain.
actualDirectConversions: A pointer to a value of type ItemCount. On output, this value indicates the number of text encoding conversion information structures returned in the directConversions array.
function result: A result code. See Text Encoding Conversion Manager Result Codes for a list of possible values. If other than noErr, then one of the text conversion plug-ins encountered an error when polled by the Text Encoding Converter

DISCUSSION

The TECGetDirectTextEncodingConversions function returns the text encoding specifications in the array you pass to the function as the directConversions parameter, eliminating any duplicate information in the process. Consequently, the number of encodings TECGetDirectTextEncodingConversions returns in the available encodings array may be fewer than the number of elements you allocated for the array based on your call to TECCountDirectTextEncodingConversions. TECGetDirectTextEncodingConversions tells you the number of specifications it returns in the actualDirectConversions parameter.