NSURL URLWithString: is null with non-english accented characters

Question

I have the following string...

NSString *googleSearchString = @\"http://www.google.com/search?q=lyrics+%22Tænder+På+Dig%22+%22Jakob+Sveistrup%22\";
         


        

Answer 1

You need to escape the special characters to make it work properly. Something like:

[NSURL URLWithString:[googlSearchString stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding]];