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title: "UnicodeCodecType"
description: "Swift documentation for 'UnicodeCodecType': A Unicode encoding scheme."
keywords: "UnicodeCodecType,protocol,swift,documentation,decode,encode,CodeUnit"
root: "/v2.0"
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<div class="intro-declaration"><code class="language-swift">protocol UnicodeCodecType</code></div>

<div class="discussion comment">
    <p>A Unicode <a href="http://www.unicode.org/glossary/#character_encoding_scheme">encoding scheme</a>.</p>

<p>Consists of an underlying <a h