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ayorosmage
ayorosmage

Reputation: 1737

Japanese character encoding problem on iPhone

I am encountering a problem concerning text-encoding on iPhone. I retrieve japanese characters from a sqlite database. So I get character like that ( their ASCII representation here : "& #25104;& #12395;& #12424;& #12427;" )

When I display these characters on a WebView, my japanese characters are well displayed. But when I try to display them on a UILabel, the ASCII representation is displayed rather than the japanese one.

I retrieve the text data from the database with the following function : 

NSString *watchText = [NSString stringWithUTF8String:(char *)sqlite3_column_text(compiledStatement, 0)];

If anyone has an idea...

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1584

Answers (1)

Daniel Dickison
Daniel Dickison

Reputation: 21882

That's because what you have is not an "ASCII representation". Those ("成による") are known as XML or HTML character entity references. As such, they only work if you parse them in an HTML context (like a web view).

What you need to do is either use a UIWebView for your labels, or parse the character entity references to turn them in to a normal NSString.

Upvotes: 2

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