The Apple Type Services for Unicode Imaging (ATSUI) is the set of services for rendering Unicode-encoded text introduced in

Mac OS 8.5 Mac OS 8 is an operating system that was released by Apple Computer on July 26, 1997. It includes the largest overhaul of the classic Mac OS experience since the release of System 7, approximately six years before. It places a greater emphasis on ...

and carried forward into Mac OS X. It replaced the

WorldScript WorldScript is the multilingual text rendering engine for Apple Macintosh's classic Mac OS, before Mac OS X was introduced. Starting with version 7.1, Apple unified the implementation of non-Roman script systems in a programming interface called W ...

engine for legacy encodings.

Obsolescence

ATSUI was replaced by a faster and modern Unicode imaging engine called

Core Text Core Text is a Core Foundation style API in macOS, first introduced in Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, made public in Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, and introduced for the iPad with iPhone SDK 3.2. Exposing a C API, it replaces the text rendering abilities of th ...

in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard). The framework was officially deprecated with Xcode 4.6, which was released in December 2012: "Source code using ATS APIs will generate warnings while being compiled. For 10.8, there will be no loss of functionality but there could be areas where performance will suffer. Programmers are instructed to replace all their ATS code (including ATSUI) with CoreText as ATS functionality will be completely removed in future releases of OS X." However, it was actually removed in September 2022 for source code targeting only macOS 13 Ventura, and will be totally removed in macOS 14.

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