---
title: UTTypeUTF16PlainText
framework: uniformtypeidentifiers
role: symbol
role_heading: Global Variable
path: uniformtypeidentifiers/uttypeutf16plaintext
---

# UTTypeUTF16PlainText

A type that represents plain text encoded as UTF-16 in native byte order with an optional bill of materials.

## Declaration

```occ
extern UTType * const UTTypeUTF16PlainText;
```

## Discussion

Discussion The identifier for this type is public.utf16-plain-text. This type conforms to UTTypePlainText.

## See Also

### Text files

- [UTTypeText](uniformtypeidentifiers/uttypetext.md)
- [UTTypePlainText](uniformtypeidentifiers/uttypeplaintext.md)
- [UTTypeUTF8PlainText](uniformtypeidentifiers/uttypeutf8plaintext.md)
- [UTTypeUTF16ExternalPlainText](uniformtypeidentifiers/uttypeutf16externalplaintext.md)