-[NSString compare:] and its variants can handle the normalization properly. 

Aki Inoue


On 2011/05/23, at 21:41, Howard Siegel <hsie...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Look at NSString's decomposedStringWithCanonicalMapping and
> decomposedStringWithCompatibilityMapping methods.  They'll map
> Unicode strings to normalized forms that you can then use and
> compare.
> 
> - h
> 
> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 21:22, Chris Idou <idou...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> 
>> If I take a string from an NSTextField with an accented character: café and
>> I
>> make this into a file name and write a file, then I read that file name
>> back in
>> (using NSFileManager contentsOfDirectoryAtPath), then the string read back
>> in,
>> still looks the same: an accented café, but the strings don't compare
>> anymore.
>> The one in the text field was unichars: 99,97,102,233 and the one in the
>> file
>> name is now    99,97,102,101,769.
>> 
>> What does it mean, and how can I make sure I get them both the same and
>> comparable?
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