On Nov 2, 2012, at 10:18 PM, "Gerriet M. Denkmann" <gerr...@mdenkmann.de> wrote:

> 
> On 3 Nov 2012, at 00:35, Kyle Sluder <k...@ksluder.com> wrote:
> 
>> If this is just for debugging purposes, you could swizzle -[NSArray
>> description] and -[NSDictionary description].
> 
> I tried a Category for NSArray like:

You must never use a category to replace an existing method implementation. 
Swizzling is the only approach that will work.

> 
> Now this:
>       NSLog(@" Bad Array: %@", array);
>       NSLog(@" Good Array with description: %@", [array description]);
> prints:
> 2012-11-03 12:04:14.548 Writing[84446:303]  Bad Array: (
>     "\U0e01\U0e38\U0e0d\U0e41\U0e08",
>     "\U0e04\U0e38\U0e13\U0e04\U0e48\U0e32"
> )
> 2012-11-03 12:04:14.548 Writing[84446:303]  Good Array with description: 
> (
>       กุญแจ
>       คุณค่า
> )
> 
>  Is there a way to make the first NSLog work?
> I seem to remember that it calls something like debuggingDescription, which, 
> if not overridden calls description.

Yeah, try sizzling -debugDescription too. And perhaps -debugDictionary (though 
that might be an Omni-ism).

> 
> I have no experience with swizzling.

Luckily, the term is easily Googleable.

Or you can just take Quincy's advice and write your own function or category 
method that prints correctly.

--Kyle Sluder
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