Re: Non-ASCII NSTask arguments
Re: Non-ASCII NSTask arguments
- Subject: Re: Non-ASCII NSTask arguments
- From: Steve Christensen <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 11:43:29 -0700
On Aug 22, 2006, at 10:04 AM, Martin wrote:
How am I supposed to create and launch an NSTask when one of its
arguments is a file path containing non-ASCII characters ?
The follwing code doesn't work (du says the file doesn't exist)
- (IBAction)test:(id)sender
{
NSTask *aTask = [[NSTask alloc] init];
NSMutableArray *args = [NSMutableArray array];
[args addObject:@"/Users/martin/éàùç.txt"];
[aTask setLaunchPath:@"/usr/bin/du"];
[aTask setArguments:args];
[aTask launch];
}
I've tried many different things and made numerous tests (using
NSString stringWith..., logging the result with
fileSystemRepresentation, etc...) and the only thing that works is :
[args addObject:[NSString stringWithUTF8String:"/Users/martin/
éàùç.txt"]];
Ok, that works if I actually hard-type the file path in my source
code. But the file path I already have is a NSString coming from a
drag & drop operation. But unfortunately, the following code
doesn't work !
[args addObject:[NSString stringWithUTF8String:[myFilePath
UTF8String]]];
You said above, "the file path I already have is a NSString coming
from a drag & drop operation." So why don't you just use the string
as-is?
[args addObject:myFilePath]?
Your code is taking the unicode drag & drop string, converting it to
utf8, and passing that back in to create a new unicode string. That
seems a bit roundabout, unless I'm misunderstanding something.
steve
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