Important: The information in this document is obsolete and should not be used for new development.
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
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.
- 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
The Text Utilities are described in the chapter "Text Utilities" in this book.