How to determine if an NSString is latin based?

Question

I\'m trying to determine if a string is latin based or Japanese.

I\'ve tried something like the following but it returns YES for Japanese strings as well:

Answer 1

Use the canBeConvertedToEncoding: method. For example:

BOOL isLatin = [myString canBeConvertedToEncoding:NSISOLatin1StringEncoding];

Available encodings are here.