NSURL with special characters

Question

How can I encode this url to be displayed in a UIWebview:

http://de.wikipedia.org/?search=Bevölkerungsentwicklung

I tried:

-stringByAddingPer         


        

Answer 1

Just use below sample code;

NSString *urlstring = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"http://de.wikipedia.org/?search=%@", searchString];
NSString *encodedString = [urlstring stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:encodedString];