replace "strange" characters
Only strange because I do not know how to handle them. In processing some html I have come across some characters that I do not know how to handle. I get Ö and it should be presented as Ö, which I believe is Danish. There are others but i think the same solution is in order.
I should note that these characters are appearing in a larger string.
Thank you so much,
Todd
Todd
There's a spec for "Special Characters" in HTML. © = the copyright symbol.
&#x...; I think is hex. So you could say it's as easy as &x41;&x42;&x43; (ABC). hex D6 is indeed ö = Ö. I worked in Finland for 7 years for a Jaakko Pöyry Oy.
There is a method in NSMutableString replaceOccurrencesOfString:withString:options:range: which can probably deal with this in a "kind of" OK way. However if you've got a lot of this to do, I suspect you might need an HTML parser to "normalize" your string.
There's a really great feature in Obj/C called 'category' and this enables you to add methods to existing classes (about the same as the prototype feature in JavaScript). So you could add a method initWithHTMLstring to NSString and he'd parse for these methods. Goodness, this is so useful, you might find it's already provided in WebKit.
I would think it is already provided, I just don't know what to look for. It seems to me it almost everyone could use it, I know there is a bit for replacing spaces with % for urls but have no idea how to handle foreign languages. Would it be an encoding as UTF-8 or something. Change the encoding and the "hex" will get tanslates to it's correct character?
Thanks again,
Todd
