Those are the UTF-8 sequences for smart quotes. It's not coming from cStringUsingEncoding, but directly from NSTextView:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19801601/nstextview-with-smart-quotes-disabled-still-replaces-quotes Rant: This has been a super annoying Mavericks feature IMHO. Even when you put TextEdit into plain text mode it still does the smart quotes. On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 9:15 PM, Andrew Satori <[email protected]> wrote: > Alright, I am stumped so I am asking for help (and it is annoying me > because I am 100% certain that the answer will be stupid simple). > > I have a bit of code (old code I might add) that I am updating to ARC and > other such modern features. Unfortunately, I have run into a little snag. > The code calls out to a C library that expects good old fahsioned C > Strings of the UCHAR * variety. In prior versions of OS X and Cocoa > cStringUsingEncoding would return the string and things would be ducky. > However, starting with Mavericks and Xcode 5 I am seeing a problem where > the resulting char * is encoding characters to hex representations. So for > example, the following NSString taken from an NSTextView content > > NSString myValue = "select * from some_table where column_name = 'value'" > > becomes > > (UCHAR *)szValue = "select * from some_table where column_name = > \xe2\x80\x98value\xe2\x80\x99" > > Even more disturbing is that it only happens when typed into the > NSTextView. Pasting the above NSString value into the NSTextView results > in the unescaped output. I am guessing that is has to do with the settings > on the NSTextView, but I do not see what changed to cause this. I am > hoping someone can clue me into the probably dead obvious problem. > _______________________________________________ > > Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) > > Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. > Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com > > Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: > > https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/stephen.butler%40gmail.com > > This email sent to [email protected] _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
