[SOVLED] Re: Converting from Unicode UTF-16 to 8bit MacCyrillic

FROM : Horst Hoesel
DATE : Sun Jun 25 13:51:57 2006

This can easily be solved via, what I call RTFHCS (read the fine 
headers completely, stupid).

CFString encodings need to be converted before being used with NSString.

So with dataUsingEncoding:CFStringConvertEncodingToNSStringEncoding 
(kCFStringEncodingMacCyrillic) everything is fine.

Thanks to Ricky for the off-list solution and for not saying RTFH :)

>
> Trouble is the following (except for not getting any points for 
> pretty code :)
>
> NSData* myRet; // should receive the input converted to 8 bit 
> MacCyrillic on exit
> NSString* utf16String; // contains the text to convert
>     
> if ([utf16String 
> canBeConvertedToEncoding:kCFStringEncodingMacCyrillic] == YES) {
>     myRet = [utf16String dataUsingEncoding:kCFStringEncodingMacCyrillic];
> } else {
>     myRet = [NSData dataWithBytes:"Cannot encode string in 
> MacCyrillic" length:sizeof("Cannot encode string in MacCyrillic")];
> }
>