Conversion from UTF8 to Unicode in NSString iOS

Question

I don't see any direct NSString function converting UTF8 to Unicode string? Do I need to use third party codes to do the conversion?

any ideas?

Answer 1

Its pretty easy. First you get the string' length, [str length], then you get a pointer to the unichar bytes (unichar is UTF-16 more or less):

unichar unibuffer[length];
[str getCharacters:unibuffer range:NSRangeMake(0, length]];