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Reputation: 77

Save Special Character/Swedish/German Characters in NSDictionary

I want to save special characters/german/swedish character in NSDictionary and have to post this data to server, but the data saved in the dictionary is converted to some other format as in console output. I am trying to save this string as different typecasts but not getting.

As NSDictionary's data type is generic, and while sending to POST its sent as in the modified format, I want to save this data in NSDictionary as it is, so that it can be sent in proper format to server and readable at server-end

My code is

NSString *playerName = @"Lëÿlã Råd Sölvê";  // dummy player name
NSLog(@"playerName: %@",playerName);

NSDictionary *postParameters = @{@"playerName1": playerName,
                                 @"playerName2": [NSString stringWithString:playerName],
                                 @"playerName3": [NSString stringWithUTF8String:[playerName UTF8String]],
                                 @"playerName4": [NSString stringWithCString:[playerName UTF8String] encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding],
                                 @"playerName5": [[NSString alloc] initWithString:playerName],
                                 @"playerName6": [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@",playerName]};


NSLog(@"postParameters: %@",postParameters);

and output is

playerName: Lëÿlã Råd Sölvê
postParameters: {
    playerName1 = "L\U00eb\U00ffl\U00e3 R\U00e5d S\U00f6lv\U00ea";
    playerName2 = "L\U00eb\U00ffl\U00e3 R\U00e5d S\U00f6lv\U00ea";
    playerName3 = "L\U00eb\U00ffl\U00e3 R\U00e5d S\U00f6lv\U00ea";
    playerName4 = "L\U00c3\U00ab\U00c3\U00bfl\U00c3\U00a3 R\U00c3\U00a5d S\U00c3\U00b6lv\U00c3\U00aa";
    playerName5 = "L\U00eb\U00ffl\U00e3 R\U00e5d S\U00f6lv\U00ea";
    playerName6 = "L\U00eb\U00ffl\U00e3 R\U00e5d S\U00f6lv\U00ea";
}

How can I achieve this...

Upvotes: 0

Views: 724

Answers (1)

CRD
CRD

Reputation: 53000

There is nothing wrong with your code.

What you are seeing is an artefact of NSLog and the description method - the former invokes the latter to obtain the textual representation of an object for output. For NSString the string is displayed using Unicode. However for NSDictionary contained strings are displayed using Objective-C Unicode character escape sequences, which have the form '\Uxxxx'.

To assure yourself all is OK you can use:

for (NSString *key in postParameters)
   NSLog(@"%@ -> %@", key, postParameters[key]);

and everything should display fine (except playerName4 where you mess the string up yourself).

Upvotes: 1

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