How to convert Chinese Html String into NSString

Question

For converting html string into NSString i am using below function

Code Snippet :

+(NSString *)getStringFromHtmlString:(NSString *)str
{

    NSData *stringData = [str dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
    //NSHTMLTextDocumentType
    NSDictionary *options = @{NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute:NSHTMLTextDocumentType};

    NSAttributedString *decodedString;
    decodedString = [[NSAttributedString alloc] initWithData:stringData
                                                     options:options
                                          documentAttributes:NULL
                                                       error:NULL];


    return decodedString.string;
}

Above method encode English text in proper format

But I want to encode Chinese text.

When Chinese string encode using above method it returns

I want proper encoding of chinese text.

Answer 1

You can add NSCharacterEncodingDocumentAttribute:@(NSUTF8StringEncoding) options:

NSDictionary *options = @{NSDocumentTypeDocumentAttribute:NSHTMLTextDocumentType, NSCharacterEncodingDocumentAttribute:@(NSUTF8StringEncoding)};

Hope it will work.