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Chapter 6 - Script Manager

Using the Script Manager

This section explains how you can use the Script Manager in performing four types of text-related tasks. Script Manager routines can help you with

• accessing and controlling the configuration of the text-handling environment, by
  • determining the version of the Script Manager and the number of active
    script systems
  • checking and setting the system direction
  • checking and modifying Script Manager variables
  • checking and modifying script variables
  • making keyboard settings that affect text input

• obtaining script-related information to help you process text, by
  • determining script codes from font information
  • using character-type information for searching and analyzing text
  • directly accessing a script system's international resources
  • using specific tables within a script system's international resources

• converting text for specialized purposes, by
  • converting source text from any script system into script-independent tokens
  • transliterating text from one subscript to another within a script system

• modifying the features of a script system, by
  • replacing or modifying the default international resources of a script system
  • replacing individual text-handling routines in 1-byte complex script systems

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Subtopics

Testing for the Script Manager and Script Systems

Controlling Settings

Obtaining Information

Converting Text

Modifying Script Systems