---
title: UTTypeUTF16ExternalPlainText
framework: uniformtypeidentifiers
role: symbol
role_heading: Global Variable
path: uniformtypeidentifiers/uttypeutf16externalplaintext
---

# UTTypeUTF16ExternalPlainText

A type that represents plain text encoded as UTF-16 with an optional BOM.

## Declaration

```occ
extern UTType * const UTTypeUTF16ExternalPlainText;
```

## Discussion

Discussion If the bill of materials isn’t present, the encoding uses “external byte order (big-endian), The identifier for this type is public.utf16-external-plain-text. This type conforms to UTTypePlainText.

## See Also

### Text files

- [UTTypeText](uniformtypeidentifiers/uttypetext.md)
- [UTTypePlainText](uniformtypeidentifiers/uttypeplaintext.md)
- [UTTypeUTF8PlainText](uniformtypeidentifiers/uttypeutf8plaintext.md)
- [UTTypeUTF16PlainText](uniformtypeidentifiers/uttypeutf16plaintext.md)