Question

When logging out or sending (to a web service using RestKit) specifically the subThoroughfare property of CLPlacemark strange characters appear where I would expect a hyphen to be.

Logging:

NSLog(@"%@", placemark.subThoroughfare);

Results in:

12-

Where I would expect 12-15. The 15 is missing.

Also, when sending the subThoroughfare string to a JSON service I see the following in the request:

12â??15

The 15 is present, however the hyphen is replaced by strange characters.

Have not been able to find a solution via Google/SO, and any help would be appreciated.

Edit:
A fuller example of an address logged to the console is:

 Placemark Address: 34–36 Friars Way, Eaton, Engla

Note the last 2 characters are also missing (should read ‘England’), when the ‚Äì replaces the hyphen (-). I am looking into encoding, however not getting far.

Answer 1

Turns out that the strange characters are due to the LLDB debugger not being able to show Unicode characters correctly…switching to GDB showed the characters correctly.