Convert UTF-8 encoded NSData to NSString

Question

I have UTF-8 encoded NSData from windows server and I want to convert it to NSString for iPhone. Since data contains characters (like a degree symb

Answer 1

Just to summarize, here's a complete answer, that worked for me.

My problem was that when I used

[NSString stringWithUTF8String:(char *)data.bytes];

The string I got was unpredictable: Around 70% it did contain the expected value, but too often it resulted with Null or even worse: garbaged at the end of the string.

After some digging I switched to

[[NSString alloc] initWithBytes:(char *)data.bytes length:data.length encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

And got the expected result every time.