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Why would -[NSString dataUsingEncoding:allowLossyConversion:] throw exception?
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Why would -[NSString dataUsingEncoding:allowLossyConversion:] throw exception?


  • Subject: Why would -[NSString dataUsingEncoding:allowLossyConversion:] throw exception?
  • From: Dan Wood <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 14:10:54 -0800


I'm trying to downsample a string to pure ASCII using the -[NSString dataUsingEncoding:allowLossyConversion:] like this:


NSData *asciiData = [theString dataUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding allowLossyConversion:YES];

However, in some circumstances I get an exception thrown:

*** -[NSCFString dataUsingEncoding:allowLossyConversion:]: didn't convert all characters


For instance, when I pass in the string "Det er gratis…" (the last character is U+2026) it happens.


I'm not finding any documentation that it might throw an exception. Isn't the point of passing in YES so that you can still get something back even if not all characters are converted?


I tried a little test project with just this operation, and I didn't get the exception. Any idea why it might function variably?



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