read a plist generated with iso-8859-1

Question

hi,

i have created a plist using .net environment and after the creation i set the encoding type as "iso-8859-1" in the plist encoding type. Then I tried to read it and show in the table view. The values are not as expected. It is having few characters which are of incorrect encoding type. What should i do ?

Answer 1

You could try to load the file as an NSString, which you could specify an encoding.

NSString* plistString = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:...
                                                 encoding:NSISOLatin1StringEncoding 
                                                    error:NULL];

and then use the -propertyList method to convert the string into a plist.

id plist = [plistString propertyList];

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But it is better to ensure you always generate UTF-8/UTF-16 on the C# side.