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I'm building a Social App where users can post a blog with content of type NSAttributedString (supporting Text-color, Bold, Italic,..). How should I send this NSAttributedString content to Server, so that when I receive it, I can populate it to the UITextview without any lost in decoration (Text-color, Bold, Italic, ..).

I tried sending an NSStringto server, but no luck, the text I received back is something unreadable when using [UITextView setAttributedString].

I guess there should be some kinds of encode and decode right?

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NSAttributedString conforms to NSCoding, so you can convert an NSAttributedString back and forth to NSData. It's been a while since I've used AFNetworking, but doesn't it have a way to transfer binary data? That seems like your best bet.

(NSAttributedString also has the ability to read from .rtf files on both Mac and iOS >= 7.0.

According to this thread on SO it's also possible to export the contents of an attributed string to rtf format, so that's another possibility.

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