HTML entity encoding (convert '<' to '<') on iPhone in objective-c
- by Markus
I'm developing an application for the iPhone that has inApp-mail sending capabilities. So far so good, but now I want to avoid html-injections as some parts of the mail are user-generated texts.
Basically I search for something like this:
// inits
NSString *sourceString = [NSString stringWithString:@"Hello world! Grüße dich Welt <-- This is in German."];
// ----- THAT'S WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR
// pseudo-code |
// V
NSString *htmlEncodedString = [sourceString htmlEncode];
// log
NSLog(@"source string: %@", sourceString);
NSLog(@"encoded string: %@", htmlEncodedString);
Expected output
source string: Hello world! Grüße dich Welt <-- This is in German.
encoded string: Hello world! Grüße dich Welt <-- This is in German.
I already googled and looked through several of SO's questions and answers, but all of them seem to be related to URL-encoding and that's not what I really need (I tried stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding with no luck - it creates %C3%BC out of an 'ü' that should be an ü).
A code sample would be really great (correcting mine?)...
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Thanks in advance,
Markus
