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Leopard Reference Library: Internationalization
Unicode is an international standard character encoding that contains all the characters needed by the world's commonly used writing systems and a great many less commonly used ones. Mac OS X uses Unicode as its native character encoding because it can represent most of the world's languages in a single, industry-standard character set. Developers can take advantage of the support Apple provides for Unicode text rendering and editing, for locale-sensitive operations on Unicode text, and for converting between Unicode and other character encodings.
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Handling Unicode Text Editing With MLTE (HTML) (PDF)
Explains how to use Apple's multilingual text engine.
 Guides 2008-10-15
Strings Programming Guide for Core Foundation (HTML) (PDF)
Explains how to create, manipulate, and search strings in Core Foundation, and how strings interact with encodings and character sets.
 Guides 2008-03-11
ATSUI Programming Guide (HTML) (PDF)
Explains how to lay out, process, and draw Unicode text.
 Guides 2007-07-10
Programming With the Text Encoding Conversion Manager (HTML) (PDF)
Explains character encodings, Unicode conversion, and custom converter plug-ins. Lists encoding variants.
 Guides 2005-07-07
Supporting Unicode Input (HTML) (PDF)
Introduces international text in Mac OS X and lists the tasks an application needs to perform.
 Guides 2005-07-07
CFMutableString Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes a mutable character string.
 Reference 2008-10-15
CFString Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes an immutable character string.
 Reference 2008-10-15
ATSUI Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes the C API for rendering Unicode-encoded text with advanced typographic features.
 Reference 2007-06-28
CFDateFormatter Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes a date and time formatter.
 Reference 2007-05-23
CFLocale Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes a representation of a locale.
 Reference 2007-05-23
CFNumberFormatter Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes a number formatter.
 Reference 2007-05-23
Multilingual Text Engine Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes the C API for supporting Unicode text editing.
 Reference 2007-02-19
Unicode Utilities Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes the C API that allows applications and input methods to operate on Unicode text.
 Reference 2006-01-10
Text Encoding Conversion Manager Reference (HTML) (PDF)
Describes the C API for transferring text across other platforms or over the Internet.
 Reference 2005-07-07
Carbon Core Release Notes (HTML)
Release Notes 2007-10-31
MoreIsBetter (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Library providing indispensable wrapers and workarounds for many areas of Mac OS programming.
 Sample Code 2003-10-27
ATSUICurveAccessDemo (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates low-level ATSUI APIs which allow access to raw glyph curve data.
Sample Code 2003-01-14
ATSUIDirectAccessDemo (HTML) (DMG) (ZIP)
Demonstrates some basic manipulations of the ATSUI DirectAccess api.
 Sample Code 2003-01-14