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Re: stringWithQuotedPrintableString almost perfect


  • Subject: Re: stringWithQuotedPrintableString almost perfect
  • From: Quincey Morris <email@hidden>
  • Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 21:28:23 -0700

On Aug 19, 2010, at 19:27, Brad Stone wrote:

> Can someone help me figure out why (brackets not included)  [•	m]  (which is, on the Mac, an option-8 character, a tab character and a lowercase m) converts to (brackets not included [‚Ä¢ m] ?
>
> The source text  is quoted-printable UTF-8 text I created and saved in an XML file in a different application.  All the other characters and line returns translate perfectly but this option-8 tab combination does not.
>
> Here is my source code.
>
> Thanks
>
> - (NSString *)stringWithQuotedPrintableString:(const char *)qpString {
>
>    const char *p = qpString;
>    char *ep, *utf8_string = malloc(strlen(qpString) * sizeof(char));
>    NSParameterAssert( utf8_string );
>    ep = utf8_string;
>
>
>
>    while( *p ) {
>
>        switch( *p ) {
> 			case '=':
>
> 				NSAssert1( *(p + 1) != 0 && *(p + 2) != 0, @"Malformed QP String: %s", qpString);
> 				if( *(p + 1) != '\r' ) {
> 					int i, byte[2];
> 					for( i = 0; i < 2; i++ ) {
> 						byte[i] = *(p + i + 1);
> 						if( isdigit(byte[i]) )
> 							byte[i] -= 0x30;
> 						else
> 							byte[i] -= 0x37;
>
> 						if (byte[i] >= 0 && byte[i] < 16) {
> 							continue;
> 						}
>
> 						NSAssert( byte[i] >= 0 && byte[i] < 16, @"bad encoded character");
> 					}
> 					*(ep++) = (char) (byte[0] << 4) | byte[1];
> 				}
> 				p += 3;
> 				continue;
> 			default:
> 				*(ep++) = *(p++);
> 				continue;
>        }
>    }
> 	return [[NSString alloc] initWithBytesNoCopy:utf8_string length:strlen(utf8_string) encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding freeWhenDone:YES];
> }

It would be a help if you could show the hex bytes actually being passed to 'initWithBytesNoCopy...'.

I note, however, that if your input contains the sequence "=\r", your code above will eat the character following the '\r'. That sort of looks like a bug.


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