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Tim
Tim

Reputation: 359

Default text encoding on iOS

I'm creating an app based on a API server. The server is currently in UTF-8 encoding.

Rather than write a line of code every time the API is accessed to re-encode text, I thought I may as well just set the server API to have the same text encoding as the app.

Only problem is I can't find out the default encoding!

Where would I find this information, and can I change the default encoding on the app?

Cheers!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 8265

Answers (2)

Dimitry Markman
Dimitry Markman

Reputation: 34

NSString's static method will do the job

+ (NSStringEncoding)defaultCStringEncoding;

Upvotes: 0

hamstergene
hamstergene

Reputation: 24439

There is no default encoding. NSString can have various encodings internally.

I know that on Mac OS X, ASCII, UTF-8 and UTF-16 w/ host byte order are always among possible internal representations, iOS shouldn't be different, though I'm not totally sure. I think it's safe to assume that stringWithUTF8String: will not cause any extra re-encoding.

Upvotes: 3

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