How to fix issue with unrecognized Special Character on Ipad/Iphone? - iphone

Question

I am working on an app that gets a bunch of descriptions through xml and then after parsing puts them on the screen. I'm having a problem with some of the descriptions with apostrophes turning into question marks. What I mean is, they start out in the xml, on the output screen and in the database I get them from as an apostrophe, but then it shows up on the app as a Question mark. This doesn't always happen, but it does with the same descriptions every time. Heres an example:
This is what is in the xml/database
But it won't be easy.
After a tour of the house, you'll be
This is what shows up on the app:
But it won?t be easy.
After a tour of the house, you?ll be
I'm pretty sure that the problem is that the ipad/iphone doesn't recognize the character that it is receiving...but I have no idea how I would go about fixing it. Here is a my Parser code: I believe the xml is being sent as UTF - 8 encoding.
[whereToGetXML appendFormat:xmlID];
NSURL *URL=[[NSURL alloc] initWithString:whereToGetXML];
NSData *dataFromServer = [[NSData alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:URL];
NSLog(#"where to get xml is:%#", whereToGetXML);
// Do any additional setup after loading the view from its nib.
NSData *dataWithoutStringTag = [[NSData alloc]init];
NSXMLParser *firstParser = [[NSXMLParser alloc] initWithData: dataFromServer];
[firstParser setDelegate:self];
[firstParser parse];
//Convert the returned parsed string to data using dataUsingEncoding method. HAVE TO HAVE allowLossyConversion:YES or else it will crash on half of the states.
dataWithoutStringTag =[tempParserString dataUsingEncoding: NSASCIIStringEncoding allowLossyConversion:YES];
NSString *htmlCode = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:dataWithoutStringTag encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];
NSMutableString *temp = [NSMutableString stringWithString:htmlCode];
NSData *finalData = [temp dataUsingEncoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding allowLossyConversion:YES];
NSXMLParser* parser = [[NSXMLParser alloc] initWithData:finalData];
// NSLog(#"Data is: %#", dataWithoutStringTag);
//NSXMLParser* parser = [[NSXMLParser alloc] initWithData: dataFromServer];
[parser setDelegate: self];
//[parser setShouldResolveExternalEntities:YES];
[parser parse];
[parser release];

Answer 1

It's presumably because the string isn't escaped.
Try adding a backslash before each quotation mark.
\'message\'