Re: Initializing a string with an NSData
Re: Initializing a string with an NSData
- Subject: Re: Initializing a string with an NSData
- From: Aki Inoue <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 17:54:00 -0700
Peter,
Unless you're absolutely sure that your software is never used by
non-English users, it is extremely dangerous to assume default C string
encoding is ASCII. For example, the code might lead to mysterious
crasher problems when executed in Japanese localization.
Aki
On Friday, 6 29, 2001, at 04:53 PM, Peter Ammon wrote:
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on 6/29/01 9:57 AM, Candide Kemmler at email@hidden wrote:
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> Hi,
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> The foundation docs states:
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> - (id)initWithData:(NSData *)data
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> encoding:(NSStringEncoding)encoding
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> Problem is: I don't know how to create a valid NSStringEncoding...
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> Sorry for the stupid question, I'm just a beginner. BTW, I'm looking
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> for
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> a good introduction to Objective-C for a non-C programmer (I'm a Java
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> programmer). Don't really know how to handle the * thing (pointers...).
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A super easy way to create an NSString from ASCII data stored in an
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NSData
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is
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NSString* myString=[NSString stringWithCString:[myData bytes]
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length:[myData
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length]];
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-Peter
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