Question

I need to parse a XML feed with french accent like ‘é’ .
When I parse the XML I lost the accents…

What’s wrong in my code…

NSString *url = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@",@"my_xml_url"];
NSURL *myURL = [NSURL URLWithString:url];
NSString *myData = [[NSString alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:myURL];
XMLParser *parser = [[XMLParser alloc] init];
[parser parseXMLFile:myData];

And when I start parsing…..

- (void)parseXMLFile:(NSString *)data {
    BOOL success;

    //array for the ranking
    rows = [[NSMutableArray alloc] init];
    index = 0;

    self.currentString = [NSMutableString string];
    storingCharacters = NO;
    NSXMLParser *parser = [[NSXMLParser alloc] initWithData:[data data UsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
    [parser setDelegate:self];
    [parser setShouldResolveExternalEntities:YES];
    success = [parser parse];
    self.currentString = nil;

    //release memory
    [parser release];
}

I can’t see where is the problem…

Thanks

Answer 1

It appears to be an encoding issue with stringWithContentsOfURL

Try:

NSError *lookupError = nil;
NSString *myData = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:myUrl
encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:&lookupError];