First of all, I found this: Objective C HTML escape/unescape, but it doesn't work for me.
My encoded characters (come from a RSS feed, btw) look like this: &
I searched all over the net and found related discussions, but no fix for my particular encoding, I think they are called hexadecimal characters.
As if you need another solution! This one is pretty simple and quite effective:
@interface NSString (NSStringCategory)
- (NSString *) stringByReplacingISO8859Codes;
@end
@implementation NSString (NSStringCategory)
- (NSString *) stringByReplacingISO8859Codes
{
NSString *dataString = self;
do {
//*** See if string contains &# prefix
NSRange range = [dataString rangeOfString: @"&#" options: NSRegularExpressionSearch];
if (range.location == NSNotFound) {
break;
}
//*** Get the next three charaters after the prefix
NSString *isoHex = [dataString substringWithRange: NSMakeRange(range.location + 2, 3)];
//*** Create the full code for replacement
NSString *isoString = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"&#%@;", isoHex];
//*** Convert to decimal integer
unsigned decimal = 0;
NSScanner *scanner = [NSScanner scannerWithString: [NSString stringWithFormat: @"0%@", isoHex]];
[scanner scanHexInt: &decimal];
//*** Use decimal code to get unicode character
NSString *unicode = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%C", decimal];
//*** Replace all occurences of this code in the string
dataString = [dataString stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString: isoString withString: unicode];
} while (TRUE); //*** Loop until we hit the NSNotFound
return dataString;
}
@end