Re: apple plist loading failed

[Fred Kiefer]

Karsten Fuhrmann wrote:
> When i try to load an apple plist file in GNUstep i get the following 
> error:
>
> File NSString.m: 1459. In [(nil) +initWithContentsOfFile:] Contents of 
> file '/home/karsten/linidigibibi/ldp/ldp.app/Resources/
> unicode.plist' are not string data
>
> On OS X it works.
>
> The plist contains a normal dictionary in ISO-8859-1 encoding.
>
> The only special thing is that some values are empty for some keys.

This should not be the problem. The loading fails long before the data 
is treated as a property list. What is failing seems to be the 
conversion of the string, the questiuon is what format is GNUstep 
thinking the file is in? This depends on the actual file format 
(Unicode?) and the GNUstep default encoding settings (Set
GNUSTEP_STRING_ENCODING to NSISOLatin1StringEncoding)
On the other hand, why would you convert a property list file to a 
strign first, before converting it to a property list? That is, your 
applicatin seems to use [NSString stringWithContentsOfFile:] and 
[NSPropertyListSerialization propertyListFromString:], why don't you use 
 [NSPropertyListSerialization propertyListFromData:] directly?