Re: Is there any support in Cocoa for stupidly encoded UTF-8 string?
Re: Is there any support in Cocoa for stupidly encoded UTF-8 string?
- Subject: Re: Is there any support in Cocoa for stupidly encoded UTF-8 string?
- From: John Stiles <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 11:41:51 -0800
On Jan 20, 2005, at 11:42 AM, Andrew Farmer wrote:
On 20 Jan 2005, at 09:26, Stephane Sudre wrote:
In some e-mail subjects, people are using what is supposed to be
UTF-8 encoded and is actually poor Unicode encoded.
For instance, instead of 0xC3A9 for eacute, you end up with 0xE9
(where it should be 0x00E9).
When you use NSString initWithBytes:length:encoding with the UTF-8
encoding as the paramter, you obtain nil. I understand this.
Now, the question is: is there a method in Cocoa to deal with
stupidly encoded UTF-8 string?
What you're looking at is ISO8859-1 encoded text. Decode it as such
and you'll be fine.
I'm pretty sure that there *should* be some easy way to detect whether
text in the subject is encoded with ISO8859-1 or UTF-8. Look up the
standards (if they exist).
The easiest detection method would be that NSString
initWithBytes:length:encoding returned NULL :) :)
Seriously, that's a pretty good clue that the text wasn't valid UTF8.
At that point you get to guess its format, and Windows Latin-1 is as
good a guess as any.
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