On Jul 15, 2010, at 4:03 PM, Brad Stone wrote: > I'm having trouble getting text to appear properly in an NSTextView which is > binded to an NSData attribute in core data. I've been all over the internet > but I'm still stumped. > > The original text looks like this: > There is a period at the end of this sentence. > You should have also just seen a line return and here • is a option-8 bullet > character. > > This text is saved in an XML file that starts with <?xml version="1.0" > encoding="UTF-8"?> > > My goal is to write code to read this XML file and create an NSData object > for the text. This is what I've written: > NSString *s = [childNode stringValue]; //assume this child is the correct > text > NSData *noteData = [s dataUsingEncoding:NSUnicodeStringEncoding > allowLossyConversion:YES]; // I also tried NSUTF8StringEncoding > > This results in the following appearing in my NSTextView > There is a period at the end of this sentence=2E=0DYou should have also jus= > t seen a line return and here =E2=80=A2 is a option-8 bullet character= =2E > > > I'd like to do the correct encoding but there's something wrong and I don't > want to resort to the find and replace method. (i.e. find =2E and replace > with ".") > > The actual text in the XML file is: > <Note>There is a period at the end of this sentence=2E=0DYou should have also > jus= > t seen a line return and here =E2=80=A2 is a option-8 bullet character= > =2E</Note> > > (why there's an = between the "s" and "t" in the word "just" is confusing). > > Can anyone help?
Looks like you need to translate the text in the XML file using a MIME quoted-printable decoder, and then run the results through a UTF-8 decoder. Quoted-printable sequences start with a = and the next two characters indicate the hex value of the character. For example, 0xe280a2 is the bullet character (U+2022) in UTF-8. See RFC 2045 for more details. Nick Zitzmann <http://www.chronosnet.com/> _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
