The only thing you can do is to know your encodings. If the code is to
be used with UTF-8 data, then state that clearly to your users; and
let them know that other encodings are not supported. If the code is
to be used with Latin1, then use:
return [[[NSString alloc] initWithBytes: value length: strlen(value)
encoding: NSISOLatin1StringEncoding];
Or, even better, let the user specify the encoding used in a
preference pane somewhere, and adjust the "encoding:" parameter
accordingly.
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 17:37:17 -0500, Jerry LeVan <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hmmm, is there a reasonable fix?
>
>
> Jerry
> On Dec 31, 2004, at 2:27 PM, Clark Cox wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 14:01:46 -0500, Ken Ferry <email@hidden>
> > wrote:
> >> On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 21:27:46 -0500, Jerry LeVan <email@hidden>
> >> wrote:
> >>>> I have a Latin1 database, fields containing swedish characters ,
> >>>> like
> >>> the name "Sölve" appears as empty strings >in the result list.
> >>>
> >>
> >> The problem might be here:
> >>
> >>> return [NSString stringWithUTF8String:value];
> >>
> >> UTF-8 agrees with Latin-1 on the subset of characters covered by
> >> ASCII, but not on all of Latin-1. There's a good chance that the
> >> Latin-1 encoding of "Sölve" is not a valid UTF-8 encoded string at
> >> all.
> >
> > Not just a good chance, but a solid guarantee. Any time a single
> > non-ASCII appears (i.e. without any other non-ASCII octets directly
> > following or preceding it) in a stream of octets, it is not valid
> > UTF-8.
> >
> > --
> > Clark S. Cox III
> > email@hidden
> > http://www.livejournal.com/users/clarkcox3/
> > http://homepage.mac.com/clarkcox3/
> >
>
>
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