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Oguz Ulgen
Oguz Ulgen

Reputation: 35

Objective - C, NSDictionary encoding in utf-8

I have NSDictionary whom contents I read from a .plist which is encoded in utf-8.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<dict>
    <key>ABACİ</key>
    <array>
        <string>ABALİ</string>
        <string>APACİ</string>
        <string>ARAÇİ</string>
    </array>

and so on

Anyway, the problem is when I NSLog the contents on this dictionary to the console, I get results like

"K\U00d6PEK"

this is logged version of another entry which doesn't contain regular latin english characters. The characters I try to use are in UTF-8 encoding.

However, when I read the contents of an array from a text file 

NSString *filePath = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@"words_tr" ofType:@"txt"];
        NSString *contentString = [[NSString alloc] initWithContentsOfFile:filePath encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:NULL];

        _wordStack = [[NSMutableArray alloc]initWithArray:[contentString componentsSeparatedByString:@","]];

this works perfectly. I want to do the same for reading from the property list as well. How can I get results encoded in UTF-8 for the NSDictionary?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 5360

Answers (2)

Gank
Gank

Reputation: 4667

+(NSString*)utf8toNString:(NSString*)str{
    NSString* strT= [str stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"\\U" withString:@"\\u"];
    //NSString *strT = [strTemp mutableCopy];
    CFStringRef transform = CFSTR("Any-Hex/Java");
    CFStringTransform((__bridge CFMutableStringRef)strT, NULL, transform, YES);

    return strT;
}

Upvotes: 1

Jirapong
Jirapong

Reputation: 24256

Did you try to NSLog by this?

NSLog(@"%@", [NSString stringWithCString:contentString encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]);

Upvotes: 1

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