how to encode NSData to string

Question

I have a dictionary of NSData values where I am passing the different values into their variables that I later use to display in tableviewcells etc.

However I have some international characters that are not displaying correctly and I would like to encode the data I am passing to a NSString but I am not sure how to do it because of the circumstances.

This is what I am currently doing.

manString = [dict valueForKey:@"MAN"];

The dict contains all of the data that i am using. any help would be appreciated

Answer 1

You can do this:

NSString* string = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:[dict valueForKey:@"MAN"] 
                                         encoding:NSStringEncoding];

Where encoding should be a value from NSStringEncoding enum, you can find it in NSString.h , just choose encoding you need, usually it is NSUTF8StringEncoding , but I guess not in your case.