Re: How to convert UInt8 array to NSString

FROM : Adam R. Maxwell
DATE : Wed May 07 22:14:26 2008

On Wednesday, May 07, 2008, at 12:37PM, "Jean-Daniel Dupas" <<email_removed>> wrote:
>What make you think this function assumes an exact encoding ? This 
>method is not the same than +[NSString 
>stringWithContentsOfFile:encoding:error:].
>
>The method +stringWithContentsOfFile:usedEncoding:error: returns the 
>sniffed encoding by reference using the second argument. At least 
>that's what the documentation says: “ This method attempts to 
>determine the encoding of the file at path.”
>This method was introduced in Tiger, that's maybe why you never see it 
>before.


Unfortunately, that method doesn't work unless you have UTF-16 or UTF-32 with a BOM on Tiger, which makes it less useful than it might be.  On Leopard it reads xattrs, then tries UTF-8 if it's not UTF-16/32, but it certainly doesn't sniff encodings like TEC.  I was never motivated enough to figure out TEC, so basically ended up checking for BOM, trying UTF-8, and then using MacRoman if all else failed.

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adam