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# CFStringBuiltInEncodings

Encodings that are built-in on all platforms on which macOS runs.

```
enum CFStringBuiltInEncodings
```

## Topics

### Constants

[`CFStringBuiltInEncodings.macRoman`](/documentation/CoreFoundation/CFStringBuiltInEncodings/macRoman)

An encoding constant that identifies the Mac Roman encoding.

[`CFStringBuiltInEncodings.windowsLatin1`](/documentation/CoreFoundation/CFStringBuiltInEncodings/windowsLatin1)

An encoding constant that identifies the Windows Latin 1 encoding (ANSI codepage 1252).

[`CFStringBuiltInEncodings.isoLatin1`](/documentation/CoreFoundation/CFStringBuiltInEncodings/isoLatin1)

An encoding constant that identifies the ISO Latin 1 encoding (ISO 8859-1)

[`CFStringBuiltInEncodings.nextStepLatin`](/documentation/CoreFoundation/CFStringBuiltInEncodings/nextStepLatin)

An encoding constant that identifies the NextStep/OpenStep encoding.

[`CFStringBuiltInEncodings.ASCII`](/documentation/CoreFoundation/CFStringBuiltInEncodings/ASCII)

An encoding constant that identifies the ASCII encoding (decimal values 0 through 127).

[`CFStringBuiltInEncodings.unicode`](/documentation/CoreFoundation/CFStringBuiltInEncodings/unicode)

An encoding constant that identifies the Unicode encoding.

[`CFStringBuiltInEncodings.UTF8`](/documentation/CoreFoundation/CFStringBuiltInEncodings/UTF8)

An encoding constant that identifies the UTF 8 encoding.

[`CFStringBuiltInEncodings.nonLossyASCII`](/documentation/CoreFoundation/CFStringBuiltInEncodings/nonLossyASCII)

An encoding constant that identifies non-lossy ASCII encoding.

[`UTF16`](/documentation/CoreFoundation/CFStringBuiltInEncodings/UTF16)

An encoding constant that identifies kTextEncodingUnicodeDefault + kUnicodeUTF16Format encoding (alias of kCFStringEncodingUnicode).

[`CFStringBuiltInEncodings.UTF16BE`](/documentation/CoreFoundation/CFStringBuiltInEncodings/UTF16BE)

An encoding constant that identifies kTextEncodingUnicodeDefault + kUnicodeUTF16BEFormat encoding. This constant specifies big-endian byte order.

[`CFStringBuiltInEncodings.UTF16LE`](/documentation/CoreFoundation/CFStringBuiltInEncodings/UTF16LE)

An encoding constant that identifies kTextEncodingUnicodeDefault + kUnicodeUTF16LEFormat encoding. This constant specifies little-endian byte order.

[`CFStringBuiltInEncodings.UTF32`](/documentation/CoreFoundation/CFStringBuiltInEncodings/UTF32)

An encoding constant that identifies kTextEncodingUnicodeDefault + kUnicodeUTF32Format encoding.

[`CFStringBuiltInEncodings.UTF32BE`](/documentation/CoreFoundation/CFStringBuiltInEncodings/UTF32BE)

An encoding constant that identifies kTextEncodingUnicodeDefault + kUnicodeUTF32BEFormat encoding. This constant specifies big-endian byte order.

[`CFStringBuiltInEncodings.UTF32LE`](/documentation/CoreFoundation/CFStringBuiltInEncodings/UTF32LE)

An encoding constant that identifies kTextEncodingUnicodeDefault + kUnicodeUTF32LEFormat encoding. This constant specifies little-endian byte order.


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