---
title: Unicode.UTF8.ValidationError.Kind
framework: swift
role: symbol
role_heading: Structure
path: swift/unicode/utf8/validationerror/kind-swift.struct
---

# Unicode.UTF8.ValidationError.Kind

The kind of encoding error encountered during validation

## Declaration

```swift
@frozen struct Kind
```

## Topics

### Initializers

- [init(rawValue:)](swift/unicode/utf8/validationerror/kind-swift.struct/init(rawvalue:).md)

### Instance Properties

- [rawValue](swift/unicode/utf8/validationerror/kind-swift.struct/rawvalue-swift.property.md)

### Type Aliases

- [Unicode.UTF8.ValidationError.Kind.RawValue](swift/unicode/utf8/validationerror/kind-swift.struct/rawvalue-swift.typealias.md)

### Type Properties

- [invalidNonSurrogateCodePointByte](swift/unicode/utf8/validationerror/kind-swift.struct/invalidnonsurrogatecodepointbyte.md)
- [overlongEncodingByte](swift/unicode/utf8/validationerror/kind-swift.struct/overlongencodingbyte.md)
- [surrogateCodePointByte](swift/unicode/utf8/validationerror/kind-swift.struct/surrogatecodepointbyte.md)
- [truncatedScalar](swift/unicode/utf8/validationerror/kind-swift.struct/truncatedscalar.md)
- [unexpectedContinuationByte](swift/unicode/utf8/validationerror/kind-swift.struct/unexpectedcontinuationbyte.md)

### Default Implementations

- [CustomStringConvertible Implementations](swift/unicode/utf8/validationerror/kind-swift.struct/customstringconvertible-implementations.md)
- [Equatable Implementations](swift/unicode/utf8/validationerror/kind-swift.struct/equatable-implementations.md)
- [RawRepresentable Implementations](swift/unicode/utf8/validationerror/kind-swift.struct/rawrepresentable-implementations.md)

## Relationships

### Conforms To

- [BitwiseCopyable](swift/bitwisecopyable.md)
- [Copyable](swift/copyable.md)
- [CustomStringConvertible](swift/customstringconvertible.md)
- [Equatable](swift/equatable.md)
- [Error](swift/error.md)
- [Escapable](swift/escapable.md)
- [Hashable](swift/hashable.md)
- [RawRepresentable](swift/rawrepresentable.md)
- [Sendable](swift/sendable.md)
- [SendableMetatype](swift/sendablemetatype.md)