On Jun 16, 2007, at 8:40 AM, Brian Stevens wrote:

> the unicode in the source file is something I would have to  
> research since I don't know how to identify it in a data stream.
>


There are calls to convert unicode to pascal string and vice-versa.  
The pascal string could then be processed as a stream of characters.  
Don't know if this helps.

// UnicodeConverter.h
#define TextToUnicodeInfo as Ptr // opaque
#define UnicodeToTextInfo as Ptr // opaque

toolbox fn CreateTextToUnicodeInfoByEncoding( TextEncoding iEncoding,  
TextToUnicodeInfo *oTextToUnicodeInfo ) = OSStatus
toolbox fn CreateUnicodeToTextInfoByEncoding( TextEncoding iEncoding,  
UnicodeToTextInfo *oUnicodeToTextInfo ) = OSStatus
toolbox fn ConvertFromPStringToUnicode( TextToUnicodeInfo  
iTextToUnicodeInfo, Str255 *iPascalStr,¬
   ByteCount iOutputBufLen, ByteCount oUnicodeLen, UniChar oUnicodeStr 
[] ) = OSStatus
toolbox fn ConvertFromUnicodeToPString( UnicodeToTextInfo  
iUnicodeToTextInfo, ByteCount iUnicodeLen,¬
   const UniChar iUnicodeStr[], Str255 *oPascalStr ) = OSStatus