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title: String Encodings
framework: foundation
role: collectionGroup
role_heading: API Collection
path: foundation/1497293-string-encodings
---

# String Encodings

Constants for encoding standards used when converting raw data to and from string representations.

## Topics

### 7- and 8-bit Encodings

- [NSASCIIStringEncoding](foundation/nsasciistringencoding.md)
- [NSISOLatin1StringEncoding](foundation/nsisolatin1stringencoding.md)
- [NSISOLatin2StringEncoding](foundation/nsisolatin2stringencoding.md)
- [NSMacOSRomanStringEncoding](foundation/nsmacosromanstringencoding.md)
- [NSNEXTSTEPStringEncoding](foundation/nsnextstepstringencoding.md)
- [NSNonLossyASCIIStringEncoding](foundation/nsnonlossyasciistringencoding.md)
- [NSSymbolStringEncoding](foundation/nssymbolstringencoding.md)

### 7- and 8-bit Japanese Encodings

- [NSISO2022JPStringEncoding](foundation/nsiso2022jpstringencoding.md)
- [NSJapaneseEUCStringEncoding](foundation/nsjapaneseeucstringencoding.md)
- [NSShiftJISStringEncoding](foundation/nsshiftjisstringencoding.md)

### Unicode Encodings

- [NSUTF8StringEncoding](foundation/nsutf8stringencoding.md)
- [NSUTF16BigEndianStringEncoding](foundation/nsutf16bigendianstringencoding.md)
- [NSUTF16LittleEndianStringEncoding](foundation/nsutf16littleendianstringencoding.md)
- [NSUTF16StringEncoding](foundation/nsutf16stringencoding.md)
- [NSUnicodeStringEncoding](foundation/nsunicodestringencoding.md)
- [NSUTF32BigEndianStringEncoding](foundation/nsutf32bigendianstringencoding.md)
- [NSUTF32LittleEndianStringEncoding](foundation/nsutf32littleendianstringencoding.md)
- [NSUTF32StringEncoding](foundation/nsutf32stringencoding.md)

### Windows Code Page Encodings

- [NSWindowsCP1250StringEncoding](foundation/nswindowscp1250stringencoding.md)
- [NSWindowsCP1251StringEncoding](foundation/nswindowscp1251stringencoding.md)
- [NSWindowsCP1252StringEncoding](foundation/nswindowscp1252stringencoding.md)
- [NSWindowsCP1253StringEncoding](foundation/nswindowscp1253stringencoding.md)
- [NSWindowsCP1254StringEncoding](foundation/nswindowscp1254stringencoding.md)

## See Also

### Strings

- [String](swift/string.md)