Alamofire 4 and special characters in JSON

Question

I've got a problem with special characters with Alamofire 4.
The JSON contains æ, ø and å and the browser shows them fine, also my previous solution using SwiftyJSON did.

Alamofire 4 shows something like this instead:

U00e6

Using this call:

Alamofire.request(specificURL, method: .get, parameters: param, encoding: URLEncoding.default, headers: nil).responseJSON { (response: DataResponse<Any>) in
    print(response)
}

What to do to solve this?

Answer 1

Seems the typical serialization error due to wrong JSON encoding, probably your response status code is 3840.

JSON text SHALL be encoded in UTF-8, UTF-16, or UTF-32.

You could try to convert the response data to correct UTF8 encoding:

let datastring = NSString(data: response.data!, encoding: String.Encoding.isoLatin1.rawValue)
let data = datastring!.data(using: String.Encoding.utf8.rawValue)
do {
     let object = try JSONSerialization.jsonObject(with: data!, options: .allowFragments)
     let jsonDic = object as! NSDictionary
     print("  ok, successfully converted..\(jsonDic)")
} catch let aError as Error {
     // print and handle aError 
}

Hope it helps you.

Answer 2

Swift 3 update for Ekta's answer:

let encodedURL = specificURL.addingPercentEncoding(withAllowedCharacters: NSCharacterSet.urlQueryAllowed)