Inside Macintosh: Text /

Chapter 1 - Introduction to Text on the Macintosh

Writing Systems and Script Systems

The first section of this chapter, "Macintosh Text Overview," has given an overview to all of Macintosh text handling. This section and the rest of the chapter develop many of those concepts in more detail, to give you the background necessary to work with the routines documented throughout the remainder of this book.

This section presents the language features that must be addressed by system software if it is to properly handle the world's writing systems. It also describes the organization of the Macintosh script management system and the structure and classification of the Macintosh script systems that implement that international text handling.

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Subtopics

Features of the World's Writing Systems

Components of the Macintosh Script Management System

Components of a Script System

How Script Systems Are Classified