Question

I download an html page and I try to encode it from NSData to NSString with this:

    NSString *string = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:receivedData encoding:NSISOLatin1StringEncoding];

I found that it gives a text with strange chars.
I found that the page is look ok in the browser in

WINDOWS-1255
ISO-8858-8

Does it exist an encoding in objective-c that support it ?

Answer 1

NSString does not support Windows Hebrew character encoding.
CFString fortunately does support Windows Hebrew character encoding.

Use CFStringConvertEncodingToNSStringEncoding() to convert the CFStringEncoding to NSStringEncoding, for example:

  NSString *string = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:receivedData encoding:CFStringConvertEncodingToNSStringEncoding (kCFStringEncodingWindowsHebrew)];