how to get UTF-16 from NSString

[john855]

I have a line of code:

const char *cStr = [clearText UTF8String];

and I want to get the utf16string instead, but can't find an easy way to do this. I know NSString uses UTF-16 internally so I can't figure why this is so difficult.

[RickMaddy]

It's not difficult.

const char *cStr = [clearText cStringUsingEncoding:NSUnicodeStringEncoding];

Note: You may need NSUTF16BigEndianStringEncoding or NSUTF16LittleEndianStringEncoding instead of NSUnicodeStringEncoding.

[vibhorgoyal]

can you please tell the difference between :

NSUTF16BigEndianStringEncoding, NSUTF16LittleEndianStringEncoding and NSUnicodeStringEncoding


I am trying to port a windows code, which was actually using WCHARs.

TIA
Vibhor