Question

I’m grabbing a JSON feed but weird characters shows up in the JSON feed. For example pass\u00e9 represents passé. i already utf-8 it with NSUTF8StringEncoding

i’m using the next JSON:

NSString *jsonString = [NSString 
                        stringWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:UrlXml] 
                        encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding
                        error:nil];


    SBJSON *parser = [[SBJSON alloc] init];
    NSDictionary *results = [parser objectWithString:jsonString error:nil];

    parser = nil;

Answer 1

If the data you’re receiving from the JSON feed has the literal text pass\u00e9 in it (as 10 ASCII bytes with a literal ‘backslash’ character in it) then the data is not UTF-8 encoded. You should use NSNonLossyASCIIStringEncoding instead. That encoding will convert \u#### sequences to the proper Unicode characters.