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Leopard Release Notes: Text & Fonts

Carbon

Carbon is a set of C APIs that take advantage of new features and enhancements of Mac OS X, including protected memory, preemptive multitasking and dynamic resource allocation, as well as the Aqua interface. Carbon includes a set of C APIs for text input and display, managing fonts, converting text encodings, searching text, and performing sophisticated typography.