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<concept id="GUID-A9A49E91-B4EC-5D92-A021-7D08F4ED094C" xml:lang="en"><title>Text types</title><shortdesc>This document describes the Text data types.</shortdesc><prolog><metadata><keywords/></metadata></prolog><conbody>
<p><xref href="GUID-317497AE-D70D-3FD5-9865-6446FF4AD035.dita"><apiname>TText</apiname></xref> represents a character in the natural character
width for the Symbian platform build. For Unicode builds, (i.e. from v5.1
onwards) this is 16 bits. For non-Unicode builds, this is 8 bits. </p>
<p><xref href="GUID-0DC8E9A8-8B5A-3566-B1C5-27B6E4F47F3C.dita"><apiname>TText8</apiname></xref> is always available for build-independent 8-bit
characters, and <xref href="GUID-9A863E0A-E588-367C-9444-C13AC0D44234.dita"><apiname>TText16</apiname></xref> is always available for build-independent
16-bit characters. <xref href="GUID-317497AE-D70D-3FD5-9865-6446FF4AD035.dita"><apiname>TText</apiname></xref> is mapped onto either of these
types, depending on the build.</p>
<p><xref href="GUID-317497AE-D70D-3FD5-9865-6446FF4AD035.dita"><apiname>TText</apiname></xref> types are implemented as <xref href="GUID-F9432D7B-41C9-3048-AC50-B5BCF8BE11D0.dita"><apiname>TUint</apiname></xref> s
of the appropriate size. <xref href="GUID-317497AE-D70D-3FD5-9865-6446FF4AD035.dita"><apiname>TText</apiname></xref> should be used for representing
characters, as a reminder to the programmer.</p>
<p>The <xref href="GUID-CDCFA2A5-EA8A-3B39-B90F-77AC41571E2D.dita"><apiname>TChar</apiname></xref> class wraps a character value and provides
a number of utility functions to manipulate it and to test its properties,
such as converting the character to uppercase and testing whether it’s a control
character.</p>
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