NSString convert utf8

Question

I have strings that I download from the web that look like this:

&#x5DE;&#x5E9;&#x5D4; &#x5E4;&#x5E8;&#x5E5;

How can I get the real string from this string?

yes it convert from NSData but it won't help – YosiFZ Apr 30 '12 at 15:14 — YosiFZ, Apr 30 '12 at 15:14

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 30 '12 at 15:19

You could try the GTMNSString+HTML class developed by Google. Specifically, the method:

/// Get a string where internal characters that are escaped for HTML are unescaped 
//
///  For example, '&amp;' becomes '&'
///  Handles &#32; and &#x32; cases as well
///
//  Returns:
//    Autoreleased NSString
//
- (NSString *)gtm_stringByUnescapingFromHTML;

Github (Michael Waterfall) - actually from Google Toolbox for Mac - may or may not be compatible with iOS.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:06

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The string you are getting from the web contains HTML entities (i.e: מ). You could manually detect and capture the hexadecimal values (ie: 0x5DE in this case) and feed it to a NSMutableString.

This other question might have other useful options for you: Objective-C: How to replace HTML entities?

edited May 23 '17 at 12:06

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