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Asked: 2026-05-26T05:21:36+00:00

I get the html source of a page to a NSString like this NSString*

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I get the html source of a page to a NSString like this

NSString* url = @"example url";
NSURL *urlRequest = [NSURL URLWithString:url];
NSError *err = nil;
NSString *response = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:urlRequest encoding:kCFStringEncodingUTF8 error:&err];

a part of the response is like : 2 \u00cf\u0083\u00cf\u0087\u00cf\u008c\u00ce\u00bb\u00ce\u00b9\u00ce\u00b1

How can i have the Greek characters shown as they should in the NSString response?

The encoding of the page is “charset=iso-8859-7”

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  1. Editorial Team

    Ahhh, I understand your question a little bit better now.

    The Apple-supplied native implementation of NSString doesn’t know what to do with iso-8859-7 encoding.

    You have two options.

    1)

    Try requesting different encodings to [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL: encoding: error:] to see if one successfully loads. My first attempt would be with NSISOLatin1StringEncoding.

    2)

    I found a third party library (and NSString category extension) that does do iso-8859-7 conversion. But to get access to CkoCharset will cost you (or your client) $290 USD. It might be a worthwhile investment to save time & hassle.

    https://chilkatsoft.com/charset-objc.asp

    and documentation is here:

    http://www.chilkatsoft.com/refdoc/objcCkoCharsetRef.html

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