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= TECManager =
Pythonic wrapper for the Text to Unicode functionality of Apple's [[http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Carbon/Conceptual/ProgWithTECM/|Text Encoding Conversion Manager]].

= status =

TECManager is at it's second release, version 0.2.  It now supports Python text encodings (replaces the built-in mac specific codecs and adds new ones), and its usage is pretty much transparent after the module has been imported.

= examples =

{{{
#!python
>> import TECManager as TM
>> # convert a macRoman bullet to a unicode bullet
>> '\xa5'.decode('mac_roman')
u'\u2022'
>> # convert a smHebrew HEBREW POINT QAMATS, alternate form "qamats qatan"
>> '\xde'.decode('mac_hebrew')
u'\u05b8\uf87f'
>> # create a new 'mac_turkish' encoding, which is a modified smRoman script.
>> TM.tec_codecs.createModule('encodings.mac_turkish', TM.getTextEncoding(script=TM.smRoman, language=TM.langTurkish, region=TM.verTurkey))
>> '\xa5'.decode('mac_turkish')
u'\u2022'
}}}

= links =

http://undefined.org/python/#TECManager