Displaying japanese text in NSText

[Dan Mills]

Hello,

I am writing a very simple application using camelbones. The app has two widgets in a window: a button, and an NSTextView. When the button is clicked, I replace the contents of the NSText widget. Basically, it's a simplistic flashcard app.

Now, everything is fine and dandy as long as I'm using plain ol' ascii text. I set the NSText contents using the 'setString' function. But, if the text is some japanese, say, euc-jp or shift-jis or utf-8 encoded, then all I get is garbage. "makes sense", I thought, since I didn't tell it what the encoding was, and guessing the encoding is tricky. Problem is, I can't figure out how to tell it what the encoding is.

So I gave up on that and decided to take a look at the RTF handling functions, since RTF seems to include information about what encoding to use. But using 'setString' just gives me the raw RTF in the NSTextView. So I tried using 'replaceCharactersInRangeWithRTF', but alas, that just doesn't work at all, presumably due to the camelbones bridge.

Now, finally, my questions ;-)

a) How can I explicitly tell the NSText object what encoding to use?
b) How can I shove RTF data into an NSText obj. using CB? (w/o using the 'readRTFDFromFile' function).
c) Is there more detailed documentation on CB itself? All I can find are short tutorials on the web.

Thanks for any help you can offer!
-Dan