typeUnicodeText
Overview
In OS X version 10.4, you should use typeUTF16ExternalRepresentation or typeUTF8Text to represent text. In earlier versions of macOS, the recommended text type is typeUnicodeText. All of the other constants in this enum are deprecated due to their lack of explicit encoding or byte order definition.
The implicitly encoded text types, typeText, typeCString, and typePString, are all deprecated in macOS, because they are incapable of representing international characters and may be reinterpreted in unpredictable ways. Additionally, typeCString and typePString do not support the full range of text coercions, and will be removed entirely in a future release. typeStyledText and typeIntlText, while they have explicit encodings, are not recommended, since they are incapable of representing Unicode-only characters, such as Hungarian, Arabic, or Thai.