I am using the dataUsingEncoding(encoding: NSStringEncoding, allowLossyConversion: Bool = default) -> NSData? function to convert String to NSData, but I don't get what allowLossyConversion actually means.
Is it similar to Lossy compression? Can anybody help me understand this?
If flag is YES and the receiver can’t be converted without losing some information, some characters may be removed or altered in conversion. For example, in converting a character from NSUnicodeStringEncoding to NSASCIIStringEncoding, the character ‘Á’ becomes ‘A’, losing the accent.