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Abstract

International Programming with MacOS X - A Case Study- Mozilla

Frank Yung-Fong Tang - Netscape Communications

Intended Audience: Software Engineers
Session Level: Intermediate

Mozilla is an Unicode based Internet application suite. This paper described how we take the advantage of the new MacOS X Unicode based API to implement international functionality. Topic include the following:

  • Unicode text input- Programming with Text Service Manager: Basic concept about MacOS X Input Method support, script coded base and Unicode base input method support. Unicode keyboard layout support. The old Apple event model and the new Carbon Event model.
  • Unicode text rendering- Programming with QuickDraw, TEC and ATSUI to display Unicode characters:
  • Use the new CFString data type and related to function to handle File Open dialogbox.
  • How to use Unicode Utilities to sort text.
  • How to use some of the new functionality in the Font Manager to access TrueType/OpenType font tables.

The paper will also discuss our plan for future enhancement, including

  • Display Surrogate text on MacOS X
  • Support Reconversion in Japanese IME

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