And we have a winner.  Thanks.  I had unchecked it in XCode, so didn't think 
that was the culprit, but your code change made things all better.

Thanks, I knew it was something obvious and simple.

On Jun 24, 2014, at 10:29 PM, Stephen J. Butler <stephen.but...@gmail.com> 
wrote:

> Those are the UTF-8 sequences for smart quotes. It's not coming from 
> cStringUsingEncoding, but directly from NSTextView:
> 
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19801601/nstextview-with-smart-quotes-disabled-still-replaces-quotes
> 
> Rant: This has been a super annoying Mavericks feature IMHO. Even when you 
> put TextEdit into plain text mode it still does the smart quotes.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Andrew Satori <d...@druware.com> wrote:
> Alright, I am stumped so I am asking for help (and it is annoying me because 
> I am 100% certain that the answer will be stupid simple).
> 
> I have a bit of code (old code I might add) that I am updating to ARC and 
> other such modern features.  Unfortunately, I have run into a little snag.  
> The code calls out to a C library that expects good old fahsioned C Strings 
> of the UCHAR * variety. In prior versions of OS X and Cocoa 
> cStringUsingEncoding would return the string and things would be ducky.  
> However, starting with Mavericks and Xcode 5 I am seeing a problem where the 
> resulting char * is encoding characters to hex representations.  So for 
> example, the following NSString taken from an NSTextView content
> 
> NSString myValue = "select * from some_table where column_name = 'value'"
> 
> becomes
> 
> (UCHAR *)szValue = "select * from some_table where column_name = 
> \xe2\x80\x98value\xe2\x80\x99"
> 
> Even more disturbing is that it only happens when typed into the NSTextView.  
> Pasting the above NSString value into the NSTextView results in the unescaped 
> output. I am guessing that is has to do with the settings on the  NSTextView, 
> but I do not see what changed to cause this.  I am hoping someone can clue me 
> into the probably dead obvious problem.
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