---
title: kTextEncodingMacUnicode
framework: Core Services
role: symbol
role_heading: Enumeration Case
platforms: [Mac Catalyst 17.0+, macOS 10.0+]
path: coreservices/1399907-mac_unicode_text_encoding/ktextencodingmacunicode
---

# kTextEncodingMacUnicode

## Declaration

```occ
kTextEncodingMacUnicode = 0x7E
```

## Discussion

Discussion Beginning with Mac OS 8.5, the set of Mac OS script codes has been extended for some Mac OS components to include Unicode. Some of these components have only 7 bits available for script code, so kTextEncodingUnicodeDefault cannot be used to indicate Unicode. Instead, kTextEncodingMacUnicode is used as a meta-value to indicate that Unicode handles the script code a special Mac OS script code. The Text Encoding Converter handles this value similar to the way it handles the constant kTextEncodingUnicodeDefault.