This chapter provides an overview of Macintosh text handling and how MLTE in particular handles Unicode text editing. If you are new to text handling on the Macintosh, you should read the entire chapter. If you have already worked with international text on the Mac OS and are familiar with text handling, you can skip the first two sections and go to How MLTE Handles Text.
This chapter covers concepts rather than implementation or programming details. For information about using MLTE functions in your application, and to see sample code, "MLTE Tasks" (page 37).