Question

I’m using SQLite database in my application and i need to get data from table (UTF8 Cyrilic). I’ve tried 2 methods this

NSString *aName = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%s",(char *)sqlite3_column_text(compiledStatement, 1)];

and

NSString *aName = [NSString stringWithUTF8String:(char *)sqlite3_column_text(compiledStatement, 1)];

this. The first one gets data from the table but with wrong encoding. The second one doesn’t give me any result and console shows

*** Terminating app due to uncaught exception ‘NSInvalidArgumentException’, reason: ‘*** ?> [NSString stringWithUTF8String:]: NULL cString’

Where I should search problem and how to work right with encodings?

Answer 1

Try

const char* str = (const char*)sqlite3_column_text(compiledStatement, 1)]
NSString* string = [NSString stringWithCString:str encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

And sure that you store date by the same method:

const char* str = [string cStringUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];