---
title: UTTypeUTF8PlainText
framework: uniformtypeidentifiers
role: symbol
role_heading: Global Variable
path: uniformtypeidentifiers/uttypeutf8plaintext
---

# UTTypeUTF8PlainText

A type that represents plain text encoded as UTF-8.

## Declaration

```occ
extern UTType * const UTTypeUTF8PlainText;
```

## Discussion

Discussion The identifier for this type is public.utf8-plain-text. This type conforms to UTTypePlainText.

## See Also

### Text files

- [UTTypeText](uniformtypeidentifiers/uttypetext.md)
- [UTTypePlainText](uniformtypeidentifiers/uttypeplaintext.md)
- [UTTypeUTF16PlainText](uniformtypeidentifiers/uttypeutf16plaintext.md)
- [UTTypeUTF16ExternalPlainText](uniformtypeidentifiers/uttypeutf16externalplaintext.md)