Re: NSStringEncoding troubles
Re: NSStringEncoding troubles
- Subject: Re: NSStringEncoding troubles
- From: Dan Crevier <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2002 21:20:51 -0700
On 7/13/2002 3:21 PM, "Adrian Rutledge" <email@hidden>
wrote:
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I'm writing an IRC app at the moment, and while [[NSString alloc]
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initWithData:bleh encoding:NSSomeStringEncoding] works, it escapes
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non-printing values such as ASCII 02. IRC uses several of the low
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non-printing ASCII values for control codes, bold, underlines, CTCP,
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color, etc. I want to stick with using the Cocoa provided encoding and
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decoding stuff, that will save me a good deal of work when I,
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eventually, add support for the Japanese encodings. (Should make it
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nearly free, right? I'll have to research that some, later.) In any
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case, is there any hidden argument I can give NSString or the NSData
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instance to make it preserve non-printing characters exactly as they are.
You could break your strings up into runs, broken on each IRC special token.
Then, convert the strings one run at a time.
Dan
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