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Re: how decode xml utf-8 string into nsstring??

On 29 Jun, 2004, at 2:05 AM, Emmanuel Verlynde wrote:

i give characters from internet with initWithContentsOfUrl method but i can't
decode
utf8 characters to printable characters with i`to... characters...

<?xml ... encoding=="UTF-8">
<firstname>st\u0300phaine \u0302\u030a</firstname>

Can you help me?

I try initWithUTF8String, initWithCString, initWithBytes and encoding strings
constants, ... but no results.

It is not clear what you are asking, but I will tell you right now that that fragment of XML (which I assume you wrote) is wrong in five ways. Let's start with the first line. It should look like

<?xml ... encoding="UTF-8"?>

Note that, FIRSTLY, there is a question mark in the closing angle bracket, and SECONDLY, the "encoding" attribute, like all attributes, has only one equals sign. THIRDLY, you have to either add

standalone="yes"

to the "<?xml?>" processing instruction, or add a "<!DOCTYPE>" instruction that specifies a DTD. FOURTHLY, XML documents must have a root tag, which contains all other tags. It looks like you intend to have a structure like

<firstname>...</firstname>
<lastname>...</lastname>

which would be incorrect. There would be two root tags. It should be like

<person>
<firstname>...</firstname>
<lastname>...</lastname>
</person>

which has only one root tag, "<person>". FIFTHLY, since the file says it is in UTF-8, those Unicode characters can be entered directly. But if you did want to use a literal character escape, you would not use "\u030A" -- that is for C. You would use "&#x030A;", like in HTML.

If you are getting this file from someone else, then go to their house and kick their ass, because they do not know w.t.f. they are doing.
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