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[robertlaferla at comcast.net (Robert La Ferla)]

Nicholas Bodley wrote:
>
>  I know that glibc is quite important, likely one of the 
> most-important and basic libraries; however, I'd welcome a brief 
> comment (or a link to go to) about what it does, if that's not a big 
> challenge!  TIA...

GNU libc
http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/


BTW - One of the most powerful features of Mac OS X (and it's ancestor 
NextStep) is the NSText class (and related classes) in the 
ApplicationKit API.  The NSText class is what makes OS X applications 
easy to localize.  It supports East Asian, Arabic/Hebrew (right to left 
scripts), etc... natively.  It was a monster to program but the results 
are fantastic.  Nearly all OS X apps use it for everything from simple 
text fields (shared text object) or whole documents.  As a result, you 
can enter text in any language nearly anywhere in an app and copy/paste 
it to other apps, print it, etc...

NSText
http://www.toodarkpark.org/computers/objc/AppKit/Classes/NSText.html