Question

Hi there
I have been trying to read an xml file with UTF strings, and am stuck with trying to convert them. My scenario

1. Reading xml file from the internet – at times, the xml file contains unicode
2. The files read ok, displays ok in the browser
3. But when i try to display them – instead of the unicode characters i see ascii converted, something like & #54620;& #54620; [ i added space so that it does’nt display UTF in the post ]
4. I tried to ocnvert them into UTF8String using [NSString stringWithUTF8String:[description UTF8String]], but did’nt work

What am i missing here?

edit: If i can understand how to convert a string & #2310;& #2306;& #2358;& #2367;& #2325; & #2313; (ofcourse without the spaces after the &) into its respective UTF symbols (in this case – hindi) – it would be a good start

edit: Sample xml content
description=”ख त” which i would like to convert to UTF characters, i could not find any function to do this conversion

Thanks

Answer 1

Presumably you’re reading that XML into an NSData object; it looks like you’re converting it to a string somewhere, in description. Try this approach:

NSData *response = [self getXMLData];
NSString *content = [[NSString alloc]  initWithBytes:[response bytes]
   length:[response length] encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding];

that should get you a good string with properly formed characters.