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Re: Filenames with Umlauts
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Re: Filenames with Umlauts


  • Subject: Re: Filenames with Umlauts
  • From: Chris Hanson <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 5 Jul 2003 12:39:46 -0500

On Saturday, July 5, 2003, at 04:28 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote:
// this works, because my source file is in utf-8 format.
const char bear_utf8[] = "B@r" ; // a German animal

NSString *bear_precomp = [ NSString stringWithUTF8String: bear_utf8 ] ;
NSString *bear_decomp = [ bear_precomp decomposedStringWithCanonicalMapping ];

// the bear is now called: "Ba 'combining diaresis' r"
NSString *bear_path = [ mainBundle pathForResource: bear_decomp ofType: nil ] ;

Is there a shorter or better way to get at my bear?

You shouldn't have to do the mapping bit; you should just be able to use bear_precomp to find your file.

Better would be to use an ASCII constant string for the file name, and if you need it to be localized use the localization machinery:

NSString *bearPath
= [mainBundle pathForResource:NSLocalizedString(@"Bear", @"name of Bear file")
ofType:nil];

In your German.lproj/Localizable.strings file, you could then have an entry

/* name of Bear file */
"Bear" = "B@r";

to get the path to the right localized file. And assuming your project's development language is set to German, it should even look for the right localized file ("B@r") when running under a language you don't support.

You can do this for any string used anywhere for any purpose in your application.

-- Chris

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