Just use:

const char *filename = [nsstring fileSystemRepresentation];

On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Francis Devereux <fran...@devrx.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am porting an app to Mac OS X (well, actually someone else has ported it
> and I am building a cocoa GUI).
>
> I have an NSString with a filename in it that I need to pass to the portable
> code as a char *.  The portable code will then pass it to UNIX file handling
> functions like fopen().
>
> I guess that I need to use NSString's getCString:maxLength:encoding: method,
> but what should I pass for the encoding parameter?  Phrased another way,
> what encoding does fopen() expect filenames to be in?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Francis
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