Question

I have searched a lot about UTF8 decoding, but not found the answer yet.

I receive an UTF-8 decode NSString from my NSXMLParser:

NSString *tempString = @"Test message readability is óké";

In someway I can’t find the way to change this encoded text to:

Test message readability is óké

I could tell all the options I tried but I don’t think that should be necessary. Could please some help?

Thnx!

Answer 1

The NSXMLParser will treat the text using the character encoding that the XML specifies. I believe in your case the XML do not specify UTF-8 explicitly.

The text seems to be ISO Latin 1. If you can not do anything about the server generating the XML then you can apply this hack:

char* tempString = [string cStringUsingEncoding:NSISOLatin1StringEncoding];
string = [NSString stringWithUTF8String:tempString];

I have verified that this works by testing this from the GDB prompt:

po [NSString stringWithUTF8String:(char*)[@"Test message readability is óké" cStringUsingEncoding:5]]