---
title: Text
framework: quicktime-file-format
role: symbol
role_heading: Data field
path: quicktime-file-format/subtitle_sample_data/text
---

# Text

The subtitle text.

## Overview

Overview The subtitle text is Unicode text, encoded either as UTF-8 text or UTF-16 text beginning with a UTF-16 BYTE ORDER MARK ('\uFEFF') in big or little endian order. There is no null termination for the text.

## See Also

### Data fields

- [Text size](quicktime-file-format/subtitle_sample_data/text_size.md)
- [Sample extensions](quicktime-file-format/subtitle_sample_data/sample_extensions.md)