passing JSON data with hebrew values problems (UTF8?)

Question

i have this method -

NSArray *objects = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:appDelegate.UserID,itemName.text,@"1",@"1",itemDegem.text,itemDescription.text, nil];
NSArray *keys = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:@"userId",@"itemName",@"itemCategoryId",@"regionId",@"degemName",@"itemDescription", nil];

NSDictionary *registerDict = [NSDictionary dictionaryWithObjects:objects forKeys:keys];
NSString *jsonRequest = [registerDict JSONRepresentation];    
NSLog(@"jsonRequest is %@", jsonRequest);

NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.somedomain.com/method"];

NSMutableURLRequest *request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:url cachePolicy:NSURLRequestUseProtocolCachePolicy timeoutInterval:60.0];

NSData *requestData = [NSData dataWithBytes:[jsonRequest UTF8String] length:[jsonRequest length]];

[request setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
[request setValue:@"application/json" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Accept"];
[request setValue:@"application/json" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];
[request setValue:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"%d", [requestData length]] forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Length"];
[request setHTTPBody: requestData];

NSURLConnection *connection = [[NSURLConnection alloc]initWithRequest:request delegate:self];
if (connection) {
    self.responseData = [NSMutableData data];
}

but when i send strings in my objects that not in english im getting error from the server. now, i know its a UTF8 problem, but i did set it to be UTF8. can someone please help me figure it out ?

Answer 1

I think the error is strlen([jsonRequest UTF8String]) is not equal to [jsonRequest length].

Use NSData *requestData = [jsonRequest dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]; to convert a NSString into NSData using UTF8 encoding.