Encoding issue: Cocoa Error 261?

Question

So I\'m fetching a JSON string from a php script in my iPhone app using:

NSURL *baseURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@\"test.php\"];
NSError *encodeError = [[NSError a         


        

Answer 1

I'm surprised no one has mentioned using a different encoding value instead of NSUTF8StringEncoding when calling [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:encoding:error:].

I also got Cocoa error 261 when parsing a JSON file. I just went through the list of NSString encodings until one worked. Fortunately the first one worked for me: NSASCIIStringEncoding!

You can also use NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:usedEncoding:error: to try to find the correct encoding (as described here: How to use stringWithContentsOfURL:encoding:error:?).