I have a database file exported as text from FileMaker which has several
high-ASCII French characters.

NSError* error = nil;
NSStringEncoding* enc = nil;

NSString* contents = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:path
usedEncoding:enc error:&error];


This works but enc and error are both nil after the method returns, even
though contents is correct.

NSString* contents = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:path encoding:
NSASCIIStringEncoding error:&error];

This one returns no error but the high ASCII French acented chars are messed
up.

NSString* contents = [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:path encoding:
NSUTF8StringEncoding error:&error];

This returns error 261 (file can't be interpreted).


So why in the first example is it working (no error) but also not returning
any encoding value?

Trygve



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