NSXMLParser replaces é characters with \U00e9 - iphone

Question

I'm using an xml parser, NSXMLParser to parse asn xml an return some url in an NSMutableArray.Everything is giong great except the fact that the french é is replaced by \U00e9.
Here is my code:
- (void)parseXMLFileAtURL:(NSString *)URL
{
NSURL *xmlURL = [NSURL URLWithString:URL];
xmlParser = [NSXMLParser alloc] initWithContentsOfURL:xmlURL];
// Set self as the delegate of the parser so that it will receive the parser delegate methods callbacks.
[xmlParser setDelegate:self];
// Depending on the XML document you're parsing, you may want to enable these features of NSXMLParser.
[xmlParser setShouldProcessNamespaces:NO];
[xmlParser setShouldReportNamespacePrefixes:NO];
[xmlParser setShouldResolveExternalEntities:NO];
[xmlParser parse];
}
- (void) parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didStartElement:(NSString *)elementName namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI qualifiedName:(NSString *)qName attributes:(NSDictionary *)attributeDict{
currentElement = [elementName copy];
if ([elementName isEqualToString:#"catalogue"]) {
// clear out our story item caches...
currentCatalogue = [[Catalogue alloc] init];
}
if ([elementName isEqualToString:#"partenaire"]) {
// clear out our story item caches...
currentPartenaire = [[Partenaire alloc] init];
}
}
- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didEndElement:(NSString *)elementName namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI qualifiedName:(NSString *)qName{
if ([elementName isEqualToString:#"catalogue"]) {
// Add currentCatalogue to array
[catalogueList addObject: currentCatalogue];
NSString *urls=[catalogueList valueForKey:#"url"];
NSLog(#"Current catalogue: urls=%#", urls);
}
if ([elementName isEqualToString:#"partenaire"]) {
// Add currentPartenaire to array
[partenaireList addObject: currentPartenaire];
/*NSLog(#"Current partenaire: raison_sociale=%#, lat=%#, lng=%#", currentPartenaire.raison_sociale, currentPartenaire.lat, currentPartenaire.lng);*/
}
}
- (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser foundCharacters:(NSString *)string{
// Catalogue setup
if ([currentElement isEqualToString:#"id_model"])
currentCatalogue.id_model = string;
if ([currentElement isEqualToString:#"url"])
{
if (currentCatalogue.url)
{
currentCatalogue.url = [NSString stringWithFormat: #"%#%#", currentCatalogue.url, string];
// NSLog(#"Valoare url in data handler %#", currentCatalogue.url);
}
else
currentCatalogue.url = string;
}
}
Anyone any idea how to fix this?

Answer 1

TESTED CODE : 100 % WORKS
NSString* inputString =[NSString stringWithFormat:#"\40_TTRS_Coup\u00e9_TTRS_Roadster_Tarifs_20110428.pdf"];
NSLog(#"inputString is: %# \n\n",inputString);
OUTPUT:
inputString is: _TTRS_Coupé_TTRS_Roadster_Tarifs_20110428.pdf

Answer 2

Assuming your XML has an explicit encoding, as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
then there are 2 problems you should address first. These may or may not fix your direct problem, but if not they will make it easier to narrow in on the problem you are seeing. Here are the problems you should fix:
Remove the code that calls 2 different initializer methods on a single NSXMLParser instance. That will have undefined results and its impossible to know what is going on until you fix that.
Change how you implement the parser:foundCharacters: method. As NSXMLParser documentations states, this may be called multiple times for a given set of characters within an XML element. Instead of just accepting the string and storing its value away, your delegate class should have a mutable character buffer that you append to each time foundCharacters gets called. Then in parser:didElementEnd you can grab the contents of the buffer and do what you need to with that value.
Try it out with these fixes and see if it works. If not, update your post with a corrected version of your code and it might be more obvious what the problem is.