Re: NSStrings to CStrings and hex encoding...
Re: NSStrings to CStrings and hex encoding...
- Subject: Re: NSStrings to CStrings and hex encoding...
- From: "Stephen J. Butler" <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 21:29:01 -0500
Those are the UTF-8 sequences for smart quotes. It's not coming from
cStringUsingEncoding, but directly from NSTextView:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19801601/nstextview-with-smart-quotes-disabled-still-replaces-quotes
Rant: This has been a super annoying Mavericks feature IMHO. Even when you
put TextEdit into plain text mode it still does the smart quotes.
On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Andrew Satori <email@hidden> wrote:
> Alright, I am stumped so I am asking for help (and it is annoying me
> because I am 100% certain that the answer will be stupid simple).
>
> I have a bit of code (old code I might add) that I am updating to ARC and
> other such modern features. Unfortunately, I have run into a little snag.
> The code calls out to a C library that expects good old fahsioned C
> Strings of the UCHAR * variety. In prior versions of OS X and Cocoa
> cStringUsingEncoding would return the string and things would be ducky.
> However, starting with Mavericks and Xcode 5 I am seeing a problem where
> the resulting char * is encoding characters to hex representations. So for
> example, the following NSString taken from an NSTextView content
>
> NSString myValue = "select * from some_table where column_name = 'value'"
>
> becomes
>
> (UCHAR *)szValue = "select * from some_table where column_name =
> \xe2\x80\x98value\xe2\x80\x99"
>
> Even more disturbing is that it only happens when typed into the
> NSTextView. Pasting the above NSString value into the NSTextView results
> in the unescaped output. I am guessing that is has to do with the settings
> on the NSTextView, but I do not see what changed to cause this. I am
> hoping someone can clue me into the probably dead obvious problem.
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