---
title: overlongEncodingByte
framework: swift
role: symbol
role_heading: Type Property
path: swift/unicode/utf8/validationerror/kind-swift.struct/overlongencodingbyte
---

# overlongEncodingByte

A byte in an overlong encoding sequence

## Declaration

```swift
static var overlongEncodingByte: Unicode.UTF8.ValidationError.Kind { get }
```