2 last characters missing

[burczyk]

I cloned repo from @myell0w
4e649d4
and I saw that after parsing markdown utf-8 text 2 last characters are missing.
Does anyone have the same problem?

[oemera]

I have the same issue with utf-8 characters like 'ü', 'ö' and so on! Is there a way to fix this?

[dimitry]

Same issue here. Looks like string length is incorrectly computed when dealing with unicode characters.

[burczyk]

I 'hacked' it in my app by counting non-standard characters and adding spaces in the end of string. Not pretty, but worked.

[dimitry]

@burczyk I'm completely content to do that at this point :) Project needs to launch. Any code snipped to help me get there as well? Are you just counting how many chars are 128 and above? Thank you.

[burczyk]

@dimitry yes, something like that. Here you have a few ways to implement it:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4191168/how-can-i-count-the-number-of-non-alphanumeric-characters-in-an-nsstring-object

[dimitry]

@burczyk spot on! Thank you for your help. And thank you @myell0w for UTF8 support.

[oemera]

It would be awesome if you could create a sample repository with your fix so other can use it. Thanks guys!

[dimitry]

I used @myell0w's fork and then added blank spaces to the end of the markdown string (before sending it to the parser). Here's a quick copy & paste:

NSString *markdown = @"...."; // Your markdown string

// Count non-standard characters
NSUInteger length = [markdown length];
NSUInteger totalNonStandardCharacters = 0;
for(int i=0; i<length; i++) {
    if ([markdown characterAtIndex:i] > 127) {
        totalNonStandardCharacters++;
    }
}

// Make string with spaces (to pad the original text)
NSMutableString *padding = [[NSMutableString alloc] init];
for(int i=0; i<totalNonStandardCharacters; i++) {
    [padding appendString:@" "];
}

// Add padded spaces to the end of the string
markdown = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@%@", markdown, padding];

// Now send it to the parser

I think there's a cleaner way to create an empty string with X number of spaces, but no time for it right now. Quick & dirty!

[AlexDenisov]

Hi guys, here is a fix for this issue #12.
But I faced with another problem, as described here (#2) non-ASCII characters missed...