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Re: MacRoman -> UTF8
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Re: MacRoman -> UTF8


  • Subject: Re: MacRoman -> UTF8
  • From: Michael Ash <email@hidden>
  • Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 20:35:11 -0400

On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 6:50 PM, Ben Lachman <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>  That's not a problem since I can just use
>>> [NSString stringWithCString:argv[i] encoding:NSMacOSRomanStringEncoding].
>>>  However it seems that one can't convert MacRoman -> UTF8 after you get
>>> it
>>> into a NSString.
>>
>> I don't know what you mean by "convert MacRoman -> UTF8 after you get
>> it into a NSString". After you get text into an NSString it is, by
>> definition, no longer MacRoman.
>
> Thats what I thought.  However, say I start by reading "bén" as I noted
> above, then I call printf("%s", [myStringReadFromMacRoman UTF8String]) and
> it prints "bÈn".  However if I call printf("%s", [myStringReadFromMacRoman
> cStringUsingEncoding:NSMacOSRomanStringEncoding]) is prints out correctly.
>  Now I'm thoroughly confused and am not sure what's happening.  Any more
> thoughts?

All this means is that whatever is displaying your printfs expects
MacRoman encoding rather than UTF-8 encoding. Since we don't know
what's displaying them, it's hard to say anything further.

Mike
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References: 
 >MacRoman -> UTF8 (From: Ben Lachman <email@hidden>)
 >Re: MacRoman -> UTF8 (From: Clark Cox <email@hidden>)
 >Re: MacRoman -> UTF8 (From: Ben Lachman <email@hidden>)

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