---
title: NSString Handling Exception Names
framework: foundation
role: collectionGroup
role_heading: API Collection
path: foundation/nsstring-handling-exception-names
---

# NSString Handling Exception Names

These constants define the names of exceptions raised if NSString cannot represent a string in a given encoding, or parse a string as a property list.

## Topics

### Constants

- [characterConversionException](foundation/nsexceptionname/characterconversionexception.md)
- [parseErrorException](foundation/nsexceptionname/parseerrorexception.md)

## See Also

### Working with Encodings

- [availableStringEncodings](foundation/nsstring/availablestringencodings.md)
- [defaultCStringEncoding](foundation/nsstring/defaultcstringencoding.md)
- [stringEncoding(for:encodingOptions:convertedString:usedLossyConversion:)](foundation/nsstring/stringencoding(for:encodingoptions:convertedstring:usedlossyconversion:).md)
- [localizedName(of:)](foundation/nsstring/localizedname(of:).md)
- [canBeConverted(to:)](foundation/nsstring/canbeconverted(to:).md)
- [data(using:)](foundation/nsstring/data(using:).md)
- [data(using:allowLossyConversion:)](foundation/nsstring/data(using:allowlossyconversion:).md)
- [description](foundation/nsstring/description.md)
- [fastestEncoding](foundation/nsstring/fastestencoding.md)
- [smallestEncoding](foundation/nsstring/smallestencoding.md)
- [StringEncodingDetectionOptionsKey](foundation/stringencodingdetectionoptionskey.md)