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Konstantinos Natsios
Konstantinos Natsios

Reputation: 2924

NSUrl swift 2 with greek and other special characters

I'm trying to make a server request with

NSUrl(string: "http://example.com/α")

In which α is a greek character. So when i request this i get an error and my app crashes. So i tried to encode the url to this

let myUrl = NSURL(string: myLink.stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!)!

and now my link has become http://example.com/%CE%B1

where %CE%B1 is the α character. Although my server does not recognise it and it doesnt send me back the data. I use node.js with io.socket connections. Is there any way with swift to send the correct url without the percent encoding?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 381

Answers (1)

Nirav D
Nirav D

Reputation: 72440

For encode α in your url

let str = "α"
let url = str.stringByAddingPercentEncodingWithAllowedCharacters(NSCharacterSet.URLQueryAllowedCharacterSet())

Now decode url string like this

let orgStr = url?.stringByRemovingPercentEncoding
print(orgStr)

Upvotes: 2

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