Question

I got below JSON string, i facing issue parsing because it contains non english local:

{“error”:0,”token”:”59188a107d705f8c51585d719769e0642ce98b79d86fdace30dbc58efba301cc”,”status”:”200″,”messages”:[{“update_time”:”2012-03-31
22:50:13″,”seq”:”497″,”lng”:58.4235,”msg”:“hhhh : ≈∏?≈∏?
√ø‚Ñ¢√ø‚Ñ¢√ø√ü≈∏?√ø‚Ñ¢ “,”lat”:23.5866}],”error_msg”:””}

i’m trying with below code:

NSError* error;
    NSDictionary* json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:responseData //1
                                                         options:kNilOptions 
                                                           error:&error];

it works fine if it’s in English only, how could I parse non english local in JSON.

Answer 1

From the docs:

The data must be in one of the 5 supported encodings listed in the JSON specification: UTF-8, UTF-16LE, UTF-16BE, UTF-32LE, UTF-32BE. The data may or may not have a BOM. The most efficient encoding to use for parsing is UTF-8, so if you have a choice in encoding the data passed to this method, use UTF-8.

Since your string does not appear correctly in Safari, I suspect that it is not encoded in one of these formats. You would need to re-encode your data into a legal JSON encoding.