Re: MacRoman -> UTF8
Re: MacRoman -> UTF8
- Subject: Re: MacRoman -> UTF8
- From: Clark Cox <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:38:31 -0700
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Ben Lachman <email@hidden> wrote:
> My software uses UTF8 almost exclusively. However, for some odd reason,
> arguments passed from a perl cgi script to one of my command line helper
> apps are encoded as MacRoman.
Where is the CGI script getting the text, and what encoding does it
start off in?
> That's not a problem since I can just use
> [NSString stringWithCString:argv[i] encoding:NSMacOSRomanStringEncoding].
> However it seems that one can't convert MacRoman -> UTF8 after you get it
> into a NSString.
I don't know what you mean by "convert MacRoman -> UTF8 after you get
it into a NSString". After you get text into an NSString it is, by
definition, no longer MacRoman.
> Is there a way to make this conversion in code so that
> once I read the arguments I can just deal with them like all the rest of the
> strings in my app?
>
> Another viable solution would be a way to make the arguments passed in UTF8
> since they are when they're handled by the script anyway--they must be
> getting changed somewhere in the bowels of the exec/system commands.
--
Clark S. Cox III
email@hidden
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