> On Apr 17, 2016, at 1:19 AM, Jens Alfke <j...@mooseyard.com> wrote: > >> >> On Apr 16, 2016, at 7:35 PM, Daryle Walker <dary...@mac.com >> <mailto:dary...@mac.com>> wrote: >> >> If the given method is used to read in a pure ASCII file, will the encoding >> be set to ASCII? Or could the method return a superset encoding (like >> Latin-1, MacRoman, or UTF-8)? > > I don’t know; you could try it out, of course, but it sounds like the sort of > undefined behavior you shouldn’t rely on. > > If you’re trying to determine if the string is pure ASCII, you can use > -rangeOfCharactersInSet: to look for anything above 127.
Or -canBeConvertedToEncoding:. Charles _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com