On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Todd Heberlein <[email protected]> wrote:
> Looking at the NSString class there is the method
>
>        initWithBytes:length:encoding:
>
> I have a unicode string (in C++ object) that I can extract in a number of 
> different byte stream formats (UTF-8, UTF-16 (w or w/o BOM)) that I need to 
> encode into an NSString. Does the NSUnicodeStringEncoding refer to UTF-8 
> encoding?

No. See the NSStringEncoding documentation:
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSString_Class/Reference/NSString.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/20000154-BAJJAICE

NSUnicodeStringEncoding is an alias for NSUTF16StringEncoding. You're
best off getting UTF16 from your C++ string and explicitly using the
NSUTF16StringEncoding constant when creating your NSString. Since
UTF16 is the canonical representation of strings, this will result in
the fewest conversions, and using the explicit UTF16 constant rather
than the equivalent NSUnicodeStringEncoding will make your code
clearer.

--Kyle Sluder
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