This grouping of CFStringEncoding constants identify the supported encodings that are built-in on all platforms on which Mac OS X runs.

enum {
    kCFStringEncodingInvalidId = -1,
    kCFStringEncodingMacRoman = 0,
    kCFStringEncodingWindowsLatin1 = 1280,
    kCFStringEncodingISOLatin1 = 513,
    kCFStringEncodingNextStepLatin = 2817,
    kCFStringEncodingASCII = 1536,
    kCFStringEncodingUnicode = 256,
    kCFStringEncodingUTF8 = 134217984,
    kCFStringEncodingNonLossyASCII = 3071
};

Constant descriptions

kCFStringEncodingInvalidId

Used as a function result to identify an encoding that is not supported or recognized by String Services.

kCFStringEncodingMacRoman

An encoding constant that identifies the Mac Roman encoding.

kCFStringEncodingWindowsLatin1

An encoding constant that identifies the Windows Latin 1 encoding (ANSI codepage 1252).

kCFStringEncodingISOLatin1

An encoding constant that identifies the ISO Latin 1 encoding (ISO 8859-1)

kCFStringEncodingNextStepLatin

An encoding constant that identifies the NextStep/OpenStep encoding.

kCFStringEncodingASCII

An encoding constant that identifies the ASCII encoding (decimal values 0 through 127).

kCFStringEncodingUnicode

An encoding constant that identifies the Unicode encoding.

kCFStringEncodingUTF8

An encoding constant that identifies the UTF 8 encoding.

kCFStringEncodingNonLossyASCII

An encoding constant that identifies non-lossy ASCII encoding.

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