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Important: The information in this document is obsolete and should not be used for new development.
Important: The information in this document is obsolete and should not be used for new development.
How Script Systems Work
The previous sections, "Components of a Script System" and "How Script Systems Are Classified," described the organizational aspects of script systems. This section explains how Macintosh script systems function in support of the world's writing systems. It discusses how script systems represent the multitude of characters in the world's languages, how they format and draw those characters in the context of surrounding text, how they support user input of text, and how they handle text-manipulation such as sorting and searching across many languages.
Subtopics
- Character Encoding
- Font Handling
- Character Rendering and Text Display
- Text Input
- Text Manipulation