Question

In my application while parsing the XML I have a string in the foundcharacters delegate of XML parser. The actual string is ‘Aoyama-itchōme Station’ but when I apply the encoding I get it as ‘ōme Station’. The first part of the string is lost. I tried different encodings but nothing worked for me. Does anyone have an idea about what is the cause?

Here is my code:

- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser foundCharacters:(NSString *)string
{
    if(titleFlag)
    {
       if(string)
       {
           objPlace.title   =   [string stringByReplacingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding];
       }
    }
 }

Answer 1

‘Aoyama-itch ōme Station‘ is the string what you are getting is ‘ōme Station‘.

I guess when parsing the string is getting the first part ‘Aoyama-itch’ in the initial parsing and the second part ‘ōme Station’. What you are doing is setting it to title.

So on initial parsing when parser finds charachters…

self.title = @"Aoyama-itch";

and in second set of availability…

self.title = @"ōme Station";

that is what you are seeing. So make the title object an NSMutableString object.

- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser foundCharacters:(NSString *)string
{
   if(self.title==nil)
   {
      self .title = [[[NSMutableString alloc] init] autorelease];
   }
   [self.title appendString:<parsed Charachters>];
}