Talk:TextEdit (API)

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On TextEdit Limitations

When listing the limitations of TextEdit, the article says that it only provides support for 8-bit character sets. But TextEdit actually allowed the use of any WorldScript text encoding, not just pure 8-bit encodings like MacRoman, but also multibyte encodings like MacJapanese, which could be defined as a mixture of single-byte and double-byte characters. TextEdit gained this ability shortly prior to the advent of System 7.0 (see Mac OS history), when the commercial moniker "WorldScript" hadn't been coined yet, but some of the Script Manager APIs were already available.

Also, in the System 7.x years, the 32K limit on text length was so felt by users and developers alike that when the first version of the WASTE text engine became available, it was soon widely adopted. Dhcmrlchtdj 08:43, 27 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]