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# UTTypeUTF16ExternalPlainText

A type that represents plain text encoded as UTF-16 with an optional BOM.

```
extern UTType * const UTTypeUTF16ExternalPlainText;
```

## Discussion

If the bill of materials isn’t present, the encoding uses “external byte order (big-endian),

The identifier for this type is `public.utf16-external-plain-text`.

This type conforms to [`UTTypePlainText`](/documentation/UniformTypeIdentifiers/UTTypePlainText).

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