Documentation here comes from the OS X 10.6 Core Library’s Uniform Type Identifiers Reference.
Maps a type to its encoding. The default encoding is Encoding::BINARY.
eFax fax.
Encapsulated PostScript.
Microsoft Excel data.
FlashPix image.
GIF image.
Adobe Illustrator document.
J2 fax.
Apple Keynote document.
Apple Keynote theme.
Advanced Stream Redirector.
Microsoft Advanced Systems format.
Waveform audio.
OpenEXR image.
PDF data.
Adobe Photoshop document.
PostScript data.
Microsoft PowerPoint presentation.
RealMedia audio.
RealMedia.
Real synchronized multimedia integration language.
Silicon Graphics image.
Digidesign Sound Designer II audio.
Stuffit archive.
TGA image.
Windows bitmap image.
Windows icon image.
Windows media audio.
Windows media.
Windows media audio.
Windows media.
Windows media.
Windows media.
Windows media.
Microsoft Word data.
AIFF-C audio.
AIFF audio.
Alias file.
Alias record.
AppleScript.
AppleScript text.
Base type for applications and other launchable files.
Application bundle.
Application file.
Deprecated application file.
Base type for an archive of files and directories.
Assembly language source code.
Base type for audio (no video).
Base type for any audiovisual content.
AVI movie.
BinHex archive.
A directory with an internal structure specified by Core Foundation Bundle Services. .
Base functional type for scheduled events.
Base type for digital camera raw image formats.
ColorSync profile.
Base type for mixed content. For example, a PDF file contains both text and special formatting data.
Base type for contact information.
Base type for all document content.
Core Audio format.
CPIO archive.
C-shell script.
C header file.
C++ header file.
C++ source code.
C source code.
Dashboard widget.
Base physical type for byte streams (flat files, pasteboard data, and so on).
Base functional type for databases.
Base type for directories.
Base type for items mountable as a volume.
Base type for executable data.
Base type for fax images.
File URL.
A plain folder (that is, not a package).
Base type for fonts.
Font suitcase.
Framework.
GNU archive.
Gzip tar archive.
Gzip archive.
HTML text.
Mac OS icon image.
Base type for images.
Opaque InkText data.
Base type for the physical hierarchy.
JavaScript.
Java archive.
Java class.
Java source code
Java web start.
JPEG image.
JPEG 2000 image.
MacBinary archive.
Mach-O binary.
MacPaint image.
Base type for messages (email, IM, and so on).
Spotlight importer plugin.
Mig definition source code.
A volume mount point
Base type for movies (video with optional audio or other tracks).
3GPP movie.
3GPP2 movie.
MPEG-3 audio.
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 content.
MPEG-4 content.
MPEG-4 audio.
Protected MPEG-4 audio. (iTunes music store format)
Objective-C++ source code.
Objective-C source code.
Object code.
PostScript OpenType font.
A package (that is, a directory presented to the user as a file).
PEF (CFM-based) binary
Perl script.
PHP script.
PICT image
Text of unspecified encoding, with no markup. Equivalent to the MIME type text/plain
Classic Mac OS text.
Unicode-16, native byte order, with an optional byte-order mark (BOM).
Unicode-16 with byte-order mark (BOM), or if BOM is not present, an external representation byte order (big-endian).
Unicode-8
Plugin.
PNG image
PostScript font.
PostScript Type 1 outline font.
PostScriptType 1 outline font.
PostScriptType1 outline font.
,public.composite-content,Base type for presentations.
Python script.
Quartz Composer composition.
QuickTime image.
QuickTime movie.
Items that the Alias Manager can resolve.
Rez source code.
Rich Text.
Rich Text Format Directory. That is, Rich Text with content embedding, on-disk format.
Rich Text with content embedding, pasteboard format.
Ruby script.
Base type for scripting language source code.
Shell script.
Generic source code.
Symbol export list.
UNIX-style symlink.
Tar archive.
Base type for all text, including text with markup information (HTML, RTF, and so on).
MLTE (Textension) format for mixed text and multimedia data.
TIFF image.
TrueType collection font.
TrueType data fork font.
TrueType font.
TrueType OpenType font.
μLaw audio.
Uniform Resource Locator.
URL name.
vCard (electronic business card).
Base type for video (no audio).
A volume.
Web Kit webarchive format.
Microsoft dynamic link library.
Microsoft Windows application.
X bitmap image.
XML text.
Zip archive.
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