I have a string coming in from a web service, it's a mixture of Cyrillic and Latin/English characters. When building an array by separating the words in the sentence it show's the unicode in place of the letters when using NSLog. I want to know how to convert any of the cyrillic/unicode characters to a proper readable latin/english word. For example..
NSString *sentence = @"The Tobе Elіte"; (e in Tobe is Cyrillic, and i in Elite)
After putting each word in the string into an array, when printing I get this:
(
The,
"Tob\U0435",
"El\U0456te"
)
I need this to transliterate to latin "Tobe" and latin "Elite". If I try comparing what I have now by doing
if(![@"Tobe" isEqualToString:[array objectAtIndex:1]])
//Tobe is not Equal to Tob\U0435
I do apologize if I explained this horribly, if you have any questions to help better understand my problem feel free to ask. I have tried several things to get this encoded to proper UTF8. For example, this does not work:
NSMutableString *buffer = [string mutableCopy];
CFMutableStringRef bufferRef = (__bridge CFMutableStringRef)buffer;
CFStringTransform(bufferRef, NULL, kCFStringTransformToLatin, false);
Ultimately I need to search the array for matching words by using NSPredicate, but with the Unicode in the array it does not allow me to do so. Any help is appreciated.