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Re: What encoding to use to turn NSData from a subprocess into an NSString?
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Re: What encoding to use to turn NSData from a subprocess into an NSString?


  • Subject: Re: What encoding to use to turn NSData from a subprocess into an NSString?
  • From: j o a r <email@hidden>
  • Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 08:15:07 +0200


On 24 maj 2006, at 07.56, Gerben Wierda wrote:

In that case, if I want to turn the data I get from unspecifed subprocesses into an as-readable-as-possible NSString (the data is ascii with possible 8bit characters), what is the best choice for encoding on MacOSX? MacRoman?

I have no idea what the default / most often used encoding would be. It's an interesting question. I kind of doubt that it's anything with "Mac" in the name, or anything as modern and good as UTF8.


I do not really mind that the encoding is lossy, but I do not want nil and I want as redable as possible results.

Perhaps you should prepare for nil results, and in that case attempt fallback conversions with different encodings? This should only be bad / expensive if your first choice for encoding is often incorrect, something that you should be able to easily identify and fix.


j o a r


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