Convert unicode string into ascii

2008-08-29 Thread Davide Scheriani
yes, it is for a small hex reader. I need to read some old c64 file (.prg) then visualize the hex and the ascii so when I translate this: 01 08 0B 08 01 00 9E 32 30 36 31 00 00 00 A9 93 20 D2 FF A9 08 85 FC 8D 6B 10 A9 38 8D DC 17 A9 30 8D DB 17 A9 37 85 01 A9 13 I get this: î2061

RE: Convert unicode string into ascii

2008-08-29 Thread Gary L. Wade
Maybe I'm missing something from your example, previous postings, and my ISP's web mail client, but it appears your desired output doesn't seem to match in character count to your original text. Nevertheless, if all you want is to turn low-ASCII (values less than 0x20) and high-ASCII (values

Convert unicode string into ascii

2008-08-29 Thread Davide Scheriani
this is a cool idea. mapping into an array all the chars I need and run the parse.. quite cool.tnx! I need to call the parse only one time after loaded the .prg C64 file. Maybe I'm missing something from your example, previous postings, and my ISP's web mail client, but it appears your

Convert unicode string into ascii

2008-08-28 Thread Davide Scheriani
hello guys, is a way to convert an unicode string into a simple a-z0-9 string and replace the other wierd chars into a . (full stop)? im doing a small hex reader, so maybe this could help you. ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com)

Re: Convert unicode string into ascii

2008-08-28 Thread Martin Stoufer
The simplest way I've accomplished this is: [[NSString alloc] initWithCString:(const char *)nullTerminatedCString encoding:(NSStringEncoding)encoding]; Where encoding is :NSUTF8StringEncoding You will then have to replace the unknown char with a . with the NSString method:

Re: Convert unicode string into ascii

2008-08-28 Thread Ricky Sharp
Just to point this out, the sequence of ASCII may not be useful at all if the file is say Unicode. The actual bytes making up each char could be ASCII values themselves. Sent from my iPhone On Aug 28, 2008, at 1:53 PM, Martin Stoufer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The simplest way I've

Re: Convert unicode string into ascii

2008-08-28 Thread Andrew Farmer
On 28 Aug 08, at 12:08, Ricky Sharp wrote: Just to point this out, the sequence of ASCII may not be useful at all if the file is say Unicode. The actual bytes making up each char could be ASCII values themselves. Unicode is a character set, not an encoding. I'm not sure about UTF-16 or

Re: Convert unicode string into ascii

2008-08-28 Thread Ricky Sharp
On Aug 28, 2008, at 3:40 PM, Andrew Farmer wrote: On 28 Aug 08, at 12:08, Ricky Sharp wrote: Just to point this out, the sequence of ASCII may not be useful at all if the file is say Unicode. The actual bytes making up each char could be ASCII values themselves. Unicode is a character

Re: Convert unicode string into ascii

2008-08-28 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
You can use CFStringTransform to process Unicode in several ways that might be useful for what you're doing. Or you can just go through it character by character. To see what CFStringTransform can do, see: http://icu-project.org/userguide/Transform.html I should point out that you can only

Re: Convert unicode string into ascii

2008-08-28 Thread Nathan Vander Wilt
On Aug 28, 2008, at 3:48 PM, I. Savant wrote: On Aug 28, 2008, at 6:36 PM, Deborah Goldsmith wrote: I should point out that you can only write English with a-z, so I don't know if I'd consider the other characters weird. Not to mention characters like ¥, ©, and so on. Here's an