multiline text, sqlite and uitextview, is not working

Question

I tried many things, i can't display multiline texts from database into uitextview, the \n characters appear as they are instead creating new lines.

NSString *aDescription2 = [NSString stringWithCString:(char *)sqlite3_column_text(compiledStatement, 2) encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

The problem must be here, because if i hardcode the nsstring with some \n they work.

I also tried to replace the \n with something else, just for testing. The \n chars are not replaced at all

NSString *aDescription = [aDescription2 stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"\n" withString:@"-------"];

What's happening? Thanks.

Answer 1

Have you tried a different encoding, instead of NSUTF8StringEncoding?

Seems that the newline character is being replaced by something other than a newline and your stringByReplacing can't find them since it is looking for a newline. I suspect that maybe NSUTF8StringEncoding is escaping your \ and the n so that you get those two characters instead of a newline.