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

Using Swift 2.2

For escaping non-english characters, for example: to make an URL request do:

let urlPath = path.URLString.stringByAddingPercentEncodingWithAllowedCharacters(NSCharacterSet.URLQueryAllowedCharacterSet())

Here urlPath is an Optional and path is your original url (the one with non-english characters)