You might also consider using HTML entities for those, as you never know what 
the browser/user-agent has set for encoding...

On Mar 18, 2011, at 11:24 PM, Gary L. Wade wrote:

> In that case, you should determine what encoding your web page is being 
> displayed in and convert your NSString to that encoding. If it's in UTF8, you 
> can use UTF8String; otherwise, consider dataUsingEncoding: or related 
> messages to see if that will do what you need.
> 
> - Gary L. Wade (Sent from my iPad)
> 
> On Mar 18, 2011, at 8:03 AM, "Heizer, Charles" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I'm looking to clean up some system profiler data before sending it to a
>> database to have it displayed on a web page. Wile I can insert the data in
>> to the MySQL database just fine. The copyright and registered symbols do
>> not display properly on a web page. I was just thinking to make life easy
>> I could just remove them before posting to my database so that I don¹t
>> have to deal with it on the web end.
>> 
>> Charles
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 3/17/11 12:12 PM, "Gary L. Wade" <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> Is it possible you're assuming text being given to you is in ASCII format
>>> but is actually in UTF-8 or some other encoding?  Try looking at the text
>>> you have in other encodings before trying to remove characters.
>>> 
>>> On 03/17/2011 6:03 AM, "Heizer, Charles" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I would like to know how to remove certain characters from a NSString.
>>>> The
>>>> characters are "©". I thought I could just use encodings and convert the
>>>> string using NSASCIIStringEncoding but that did not work and I'm not sure
>>>> what the car codes are for these as well.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Charles
>>> 
>>> 
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