Look at NSString's decomposedStringWithCanonicalMapping and
decomposedStringWithCompatibilityMapping methods.  They'll map
Unicode strings to normalized forms that you can then use and
compare.

- h

On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 21:22, Chris Idou <idou...@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>
> If I take a string from an NSTextField with an accented character: café and
> I
> make this into a file name and write a file, then I read that file name
> back in
> (using NSFileManager contentsOfDirectoryAtPath), then the string read back
> in,
> still looks the same: an accented café, but the strings don't compare
> anymore.
> The one in the text field was unichars: 99,97,102,233 and the one in the
> file
> name is now    99,97,102,101,769.
>
> What does it mean, and how can I make sure I get them both the same and
> comparable?
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