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Inside Macintosh: Text /: Chapter 1 - Introduction to Text on the Macintosh / Macintosh Text Overview

Macintosh Text Utilities
The Text Utilities are a broad collection of text-manipulation routines provided by Macintosh system software. With Text Utilities calls, you can

specify strings for various purposes
sort strings, including strings in any writing system and combinations of strings in different writing systems
convert case or strip diacritical marks from text for sorting purposes
format numbers and currency
format dates and times
search and replace text
find word boundaries and line breaks when laying out lines of text

Some Text Utilities routines function with the Roman script system only, but many are script-aware and work properly with all script systems. Script-aware Text Utilities routines rely on a script system's international resources to define the specific behavior in that script system.
The Text Utilities are described in the chapter "Text Utilities" in this book.




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