Re: MacRoman -> UTF8
Re: MacRoman -> UTF8
- Subject: Re: MacRoman -> UTF8
- From: Clark Cox <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2009 18:57:18 -0700
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Ben Lachman <email@hidden> wrote:
> On Mar 21, 2009, at 5:38 PM, Clark Cox wrote:
>
>> On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Ben Lachman <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>> My software uses UTF8 almost exclusively. However, for some odd reason,
>>> arguments passed from a perl cgi script to one of my command line helper
>>> apps are encoded as MacRoman.
>>
>> Where is the CGI script getting the text, and what encoding does it
>> start off in?
>
> UTF-8. See the last bit of my post, seemingly they're being converted
> somewhere in the internals of the exec command.
Trust me, there's nothing inside of exec that would do this.
>>> 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?
What is the encoding of your terminal set to?
--
Clark S. Cox III
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