---
title: kUnicode16BitFormat
framework: Core Services
role: symbol
role_heading: Enumeration Case
platforms: [Mac Catalyst 17.0+, macOS 10.0+]
path: coreservices/1400077-anonymous/kunicode16bitformat
---

# kUnicode16BitFormat

The 16-bit character encoding format specified by the Unicode standard, equivalent to the UCS-2 format for ISO 10646. This includes support for the UTF-16 method of including non-BMP characters in a stream of 16-bit values.

## Declaration

```occ
kUnicode16BitFormat = 0
```