iOS NSLog error with Unicode characters

Question

Can anyone tell me the cause of the discrepancy for the following results ?

completionHandler:^(NSArray *placemarks, NSError *error) {
    NSLog(@\"\\n place         


        

Answer 1

Interesting :)

Passing %@ into NSLog's format string just means 'call description on an object'.

It looks like description on NSArray deals with unicode characters differently than the description on each object.

However, I suspect that the description method on NSArray just calls description on each of the objects it contains and then, for some reason I'm not 100% sure about, is encoding them before dumping them out to NSLog.