Well, certainly one way would be to preprocess the text buffer,
converting the custom characters into a standard encoding like UTF-8,
then passing the processed buffer into +[NSString
stringWithUTF8String:]. At that point it would "just work" since it's
in a known encoding.
Depending on what your legacy encoding looks like, the conversion may
be as simple as creating a 256-byte table if it turns out that the
legacy characters map to single-byte UTF-8 sequences or a 256xn table
if there are multi-byte sequences, and then using it to map legacy-
>UTF-8.
steve
On Aug 16, 2009, at 12:46 PM, tim lindner wrote:
Is it possible to add an encoding to CoCoa?
I have some text data from a legacy system which is ASCII for
0-127, but
128-255 is unique to the system. I'd like to load it into a text view
and "just have it work".
What options do I have?
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