---
title: kCFStringTransformToUnicodeName
framework: corefoundation
role: symbol
role_heading: Global Variable
path: corefoundation/kcfstringtransformtounicodename
---

# kCFStringTransformToUnicodeName

The identifier of a reversible transform to transliterate characters other than printable ASCII to their Unicode character name in braces.

## Declaration

```swift
let kCFStringTransformToUnicodeName: CFString!
```

## Discussion

Discussion Examples include "\N{AIRPLANE}" for “✈” and "\N{GREEK CAPITAL LETTER PSI}" for “Ψ”. note: The result of a forward transformation delimits each Unicode name with enclosing curly braces and the leading character sequence "\N". In some programming languages, "\N{...}" is used as an escape sequence for Unicode characters in strings and regular expressions; this isn’t supported in Swift or Objective-C. To perform the reverse transform of a string literal in Swift or Objective-C, escape the leading backslash ("\\N{...}") for each Unicode name.

## See Also

### Constants

- [kCFStringTransformStripCombiningMarks](corefoundation/kcfstringtransformstripcombiningmarks.md)
- [kCFStringTransformToLatin](corefoundation/kcfstringtransformtolatin.md)
- [kCFStringTransformFullwidthHalfwidth](corefoundation/kcfstringtransformfullwidthhalfwidth.md)
- [kCFStringTransformLatinKatakana](corefoundation/kcfstringtransformlatinkatakana.md)
- [kCFStringTransformLatinHiragana](corefoundation/kcfstringtransformlatinhiragana.md)
- [kCFStringTransformHiraganaKatakana](corefoundation/kcfstringtransformhiraganakatakana.md)
- [kCFStringTransformMandarinLatin](corefoundation/kcfstringtransformmandarinlatin.md)
- [kCFStringTransformLatinHangul](corefoundation/kcfstringtransformlatinhangul.md)
- [kCFStringTransformLatinArabic](corefoundation/kcfstringtransformlatinarabic.md)
- [kCFStringTransformLatinHebrew](corefoundation/kcfstringtransformlatinhebrew.md)
- [kCFStringTransformLatinThai](corefoundation/kcfstringtransformlatinthai.md)
- [kCFStringTransformLatinCyrillic](corefoundation/kcfstringtransformlatincyrillic.md)
- [kCFStringTransformLatinGreek](corefoundation/kcfstringtransformlatingreek.md)
- [kCFStringTransformToXMLHex](corefoundation/kcfstringtransformtoxmlhex.md)
- [kCFStringTransformStripDiacritics](corefoundation/kcfstringtransformstripdiacritics.md)