Enhancements to International Resources
System software version 7.0 provides several enhancements to the
international resources, including the following:
• The 'itlc' resource specifies a region code that identifies a particular
localized version of the Macintosh system software.
• The 'itlm' resource (new with system software version 7.0) specifies
the ordering of script codes, language codes, and region codes and the
hierarchical ar rangement of these codes.
• The 'itlb' resource specifies font and style information for the script
as well as other script initialization data.
• The 'itl1' resource can be optionally extended to include additional day
and month names, abbreviated day and month names, additional date
separators, and a calendar code.
• The 'itl2' resource includes length information so that tables
table) and code blocks now have a length as well as an offset.
• The optional 'itl5' resource (new with system software version 7.0)
supplies character set encoding data and information on text rendering
behavior.With the exception of the optional 'itl5' resource, these
enhancements are described in the sections that follow.