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What encoding to use to turn NSData from a subprocess into an NSString?

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What encoding to use to turn NSData from a subprocess into an NSString?

Subject: What encoding to use to turn NSData from a subprocess into an NSString?
From: Gerben Wierda <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 01:14:22 +0200

If I have a NSFileHandle that reads from a unix subprocess the stderr output (this is supposed to be readable output, say the output of a gnutar command) what encoding do I use to turn the NSData I get with availableData into an NSString (using initWIthData:encoding)?

The data is ascii, generally, but I cannot be sure there is no 8-bit value in there. What happens if NSASCIIStringEncoding encounters an 8- bit value (say an accented character)?

I have been using NSUTF8StringEncoding so far because I read the docs as that this was an 8 bit encoding. But I have been told that this is wrong.

Thanks,

G
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