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mlRe: Saving UTF-8 as File
FROM : Shawn Erickson
DATE : Tue Apr 19 20:30:45 2005

On Apr 19, 2005, at 10:53 AM, August Trometer wrote:

> I have a situation where I need to create some HTML on the fly and 
> save it to a file, then turn around and have WebKit read the file 
> using a file:// URL. (Why? NDA until the 29th.)
>
> If I give WebKit the straight string, it handles any UTF-8 characters 
> just fine.
>
> However, when I save to a file (using NSString 
> writeToFile:atomically), it doesn't save as UTF-8 and when the file is 
> read I get all kinds of bogus characters.
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction to be able to save the 
> HTML string as a UTF-8 encoded file?


Consider using dataUsingEncoding: or 
dataUsingEncoding:allowLossyConversion:

<http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/
ObjC_classic/Classes/NSString.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000154/
dataUsingEncoding_
>

-Shawn

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