Parsing special characters in JSON

Question

I'm now parsing with NSJSONSerialization

NSData *jsonData = [NSData dataWithContentsOfURL:[NSURL URLWithString:@"url"]];
NSError *jsonError = nil;
id jsonObject = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:jsonData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&jsonError];


NSDictionary *jsonDictionary = (NSDictionary *)jsonObject;

[self setTableData:jsonDictionary];

But it won't parse my JSON because of special characters in the JSON like the letter 'ü' when i remove the 'ü' from the JSON it's working correclty. I tried the code above and:

options:utf8...

Does anyone know how i can fix this?

Your string is improperly encoded/converted. If properly encoded and the UTF8 gets converted to Unicode then JSON will have no problem. — Hot Licks, Dec 24 '12 at 22:21

Misha · Answer 1 · 2012-12-24T15:46:52.170

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Try to change NSJSONReadingMutableContainers with NSJSONReadingMutableLeaves. This solved me similar problem.

edited Dec 24 '12 at 15:46

answered Dec 24 '12 at 15:22

Misha

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Can you verify that your data is in UTF-8 format? If not, convert it first before calling NSJSONSerialization – Misha Dec 24 '12 at 15:30
@Frenck -- Read the data into an NSString before JSON decoding and see what you get. – Hot Licks Dec 24 '12 at 22:23

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 24 '12 at 20:53

Try using NSString with which you can explicitly specify encoding. Ex:

NSString *string = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:webURL encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding error:&error];

You can then convert the NSString object to NSData and then do the JSON serialisation..

Parsing special characters in JSON

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