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Asked: 2026-05-24T21:25:17+00:00

I have an NSDictionary with utf8 strings as objects. Printing the objects prints the

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I have an NSDictionary with utf8 strings as objects. Printing the objects prints the special characters as they should.

But utf8 characters do not get correctly printed out when I convert the dictionary to a string with the description method.

NSDictionary *test = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObject:@"Céline Dion" forKey:@"bla"];
NSLog(@"%@",[test objectForKey:@"bla"]); // prints fine
NSLog(@"%@",test);                       // does not print fine, é is replaced by \U00e
NSLog(@"%@",[test description]);         // also does not print fine

How can I print the NSDictionary while preserving utf8 characters?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I wouldn’t worry about what -description does, it’s just for debugging.

    Technically, you don’t have UTF-8 strings. You have strings (which are Unicode). You don’t know what NSString uses internally, and you shouldn’t care. If you want a UTF-8 string (like when you’re passing to a C API), use -UTF8String.

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