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Leopard Technical Q&As: 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.
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Losing the character code when using the control key (HTML)
QA1446: Explains why the control key transforms the character code instead of simply setting the appropriate modifier bit.
 2006-07-17
Enumerating fonts with ATS (HTML)
QA1471: Describes the different ATS font enumeration methods
 2006-04-14
Sorting Like the Finder (HTML)
QA1159: Shows how to sort strings like the Finder's list view.
 2004-10-27
SetFontInfoForSelection incorrect prototype (HTML)
QA1375: Describes the incorrect prototyping of the SetFontInfoForSelection API and gives a workaround.
 2004-10-04
Converting to Precomposed Unicode (HTML) (日本語 HTML)
QA1235: Describes how to convert a string to precomposed Unicode.
 2003-02-07
Installing input methods on Mac OS X (HTML)
QA1054: Describes how to install and use input methods on Mac OS X.
 2001-09-14
Improving ATSUI Text Drawing Performance (HTML)
QA1027: Talks about one way of improving ATSUI text drawing performance.
 2001-04-17
Locating a Font's Home File (HTML) (日本語 HTML)
Deprecated - TB18: Lists the steps necessary to find the home file of a given font.
 1996-02-15