iPhone Address Book data comes with strange chars in hebraw

Question

Im reading the iPhone Address book and getting strange data that brake the json i'm trying to send to server' the retrieving code is this:

    CFErrorRef * error = NULL;
    ABAddressBookRef addressBook = ABAddressBookCreateWithOptions(NULL, error);
    CFArrayRef allPeople = ABAddressBookCopyArrayOfAllPeople(addressBook);
    CFIndex numberOfPeople = ABAddressBookGetPersonCount(addressBook);

    for(int i = 0; i < numberOfPeople; i++)
    {

        ABRecordRef person = CFArrayGetValueAtIndex( allPeople, i );
//        NSString* firstName = (__bridge_transfer NSString*)ABRecordCopyValue(person,kABPersonFirstNameProperty);
        CFStringRef nameF = (CFStringRef)ABRecordCopyValue(person, kABPersonFirstNameProperty);
        NSString* firstName = (__bridge_transfer NSString*)nameF;
        CFStringRef nameL = (CFStringRef)ABRecordCopyValue(person, kABPersonLastNameProperty);
        NSString* lastName = (__bridge_transfer NSString*)nameL;
//        NSString* lastName = (__bridge_transfer NSString*)ABRecordCopyValue(person,kABPersonLastNameProperty);
    //    [lastName UTF8String];
    //    [firstName UTF8String];
        //      NSString* phone = nil;
        ABMultiValueRef phoneNumbers = ABRecordCopyValue(person,kABPersonPhoneProperty);

        if (ABMultiValueGetCount(phoneNumbers) > 0) {
            self.phone = (__bridge_transfer NSString*)
            ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(phoneNumbers, 0);
            ABMultiValueRef emails = ABRecordCopyValue(person, kABPersonEmailProperty);
            CFStringRef email = ABMultiValueCopyValueAtIndex(emails, 0);
            theEmail = (__bridge_transfer NSString*)email;
            //                  NSLog(@"theEmail:%@", theEmail);
        }
        else
        {
            self.phone = @"";
        }
        // get all email associated with this person
        ABMultiValueRef emailProperty = ABRecordCopyValue(person, kABPersonEmailProperty) ;
        // convert it to an array
        CFArrayRef allEmails = ABMultiValueCopyArrayOfAllValues(emailProperty) ;
        // add these emails to our initial array
        [emails addObjectsFromArray: (__bridge NSArray *)allEmails] ;
         NSLog(@"phone:%@",self.phone);
         NSLog(@"firstName:%@",firstName);
         NSLog(@"lastName:%@",lastName);

        if (firstName == nil) {
            firstName = @"";
        }
        if (lastName == nil) {
            lastName = @"";
        }
        if (theEmail == nil) {
            theEmail = @"";
        }
        sing.contactsDict = [[NSMutableDictionary alloc]init];

        [sing.contactsDict setObject:firstName forKey:@"fname"];
        [sing.contactsDict setObject:lastName forKey:@"lname"];
        [sing.contactsDict setObject:self.phone forKey:@"phone"];
        [sing.contactsDict setObject:theEmail forKey:@"emails"];
//        NSLog(@"[sing.contactsDict description]--> %@",[sing.contactsDict description]);
        [ContactsList addObject:sing.contactsDict];
    }

when i NSLog it i see some of the contacts first name like this:2013-07-15 19:03:46.964 numbex[2635:907] firstName:קופ\327\241א

2013-07-15 19:03:46.961 numbex[2635:907] lastName:(null)

2013-07-15 19:03:46.962 numbex[2635:907] phone:+972549454456 2013-07-15 19:03:46.964 numbex[2635:907] firstName:קופ\327\241א I tried to replace the "\" with this code:

  NSString *str  = [jsonStringt stringByReplacingOccurrences:@"\\" withString:@" "];

and this:

NSString *str  = [jsonStringt stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:@"\\" withString:@"#" options:0 range:NSMakeRange(0, jsonStringt.length)];

but nothing is working can someone help please

Thanks

Answer 1

OK i found a way to solve it: i converted all hebrew chars to hebrew ASCII 1255 code page in in this way: 'א' converted to 'e0' and so on to all chars and the the other way around and now all is working, i think its a work around but its working.