how to convert german charater in to utf string in pdf parsing in iphone? -

how to convert german charater in to utf string in pdf parsing in iphone? -

i have implementing pdf parsing in have parsed pdf , fetch text disply junks characters want convert in utf string.how possible please help me question.

first, need find out encoding used text. guess it's iso-8859-1, aka latin-1 or it's variant iso-8859-15, aka latin-15.

as know it's piece of cake. haven't said in container got text, e.g. whether it's stored in c string or nsdata.

let's assume got c string. in case do:

mystring = [[nsstring alloc] initwithbytes:mycstring length:strlen(mycstring) encoding:nsisolatin1stringencoding];

if got nsdata, utilize initwithdata:encoding: initializer instead. that's need do, according apple's documentation, "a string object presents array of unicode characters". if need utf8-encoded c string, can query via:

myutf8cstring = [mystring utf8string];

there's datausingencoding: nsdata object instead of c string.

have @ nsstring class reference , nsstringencoding constants.

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