NSSstring encoding not found

Question

I download an html page and I try to encode it from NSData to NSString with this:

    NSString *string = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:receivedData encoding:NSISOLatin1StringEncoding];

I found that it gives a text with strange chars. I found that the page is look ok in the browser in

WINDOWS-1255 ISO-8858-8

Does it exist an encoding in objective-c that support it ?

[Windows-1255](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows-1255) refers to Hebrew character encoding. — Anne, Nov 15 '11 at 23:02

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 15 '11 at 22:55

NSString does not support Windows Hebrew character encoding.
CFString fortunately does support Windows Hebrew character encoding.

Use CFStringConvertEncodingToNSStringEncoding() to convert the CFStringEncoding to NSStringEncoding, for example:

  NSString *string = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:receivedData encoding:CFStringConvertEncodingToNSStringEncoding (kCFStringEncodingWindowsHebrew)];

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 15 '11 at 22:59

If Anne's answer doesnt work (although it probably will), try with NSWindowsCP1252StringEncoding which is equiv to WinLatin1:

NSString *string = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:receivedData encoding:NSWindowsCP1252StringEncoding];

According to the NSString Documentation:

NSWindowsCP1252StringEncoding
Microsoft Windows codepage 1252; equivalent to WinLatin1.

NSSstring encoding not found

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