Re: NSString-stringWithCString: can't handle umlaute

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 26 Apr 2004, at 20:45, Martin Kuball wrote:

> Hi!
>
> the following code
>
>         const char* cstr = "zurück";
>         NSString *test = [NSString stringWithCString: cstr];
>
> results in test = nil with gnustep-base 1.9.9. Note that there is no
> other hint that something went wrong. The character 'ü' has the
> numeric value 252.

What character set is your system set up to use?  Most likely problem 
is that it is
one where 252 is not a legal character.  The proper behavior of an 
initialiser
which fails is to return nil.

> Using gdb when trying to step into the method call I end up in a
> function GSScanDouble. I will try to investigate further but any help
> is welcome.

I can't see how you could get to GSScanDouble within stringWithCString:
Did you try setting a breakpoint in the method instead?