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Chapter 6. Manipulating Strings > Converting String Encodings
Converting String Encodings
From: encodings.m
5 NSString *str = 6 [NSString stringWithUTF8String: 7 "some text in a C string"]; 8 const char *utf16 = 9 [str cStringUsingEncoding: NSUTF16StringEncoding]; 10 const char *utf32 = 11 [str cStringUsingEncoding: NSUTF32StringEncoding]; 12 const char *macRoman = 13 [str cStringUsingEncoding: NSMacOSRomanStringEncoding]; |
In OpenStep, two of the most common methods on NSString were -cString and +stringWithCString:. These converted between a C string and an Objective-C string. The problem with these methods was that C strings are not encoding aware.
