Google API gives error when location entering in Danish language setting in iPhone Application

Question

I am using a Google API to finding latitude longitude from Address location. And its working fine in English language settings. But when select Danish setting in Internationalization then it gives a server error from "Google". As I think there may be required to do localization in app but how?

Answer 1

Muhammad is giving the answer above, but I'll take the opportunity to explain what (I think) the issue is as well, as I had this issue in live production code a few weeks ago.

NSURL is flat out bad with unescaped strings with "special" content (e.g. UTF). First thing I'd do is check if the NSURL you get back is nil.

The way to do NSURL strings is to use stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding before passing the string in.

This simple example demonstrates this:

NSString *string = @"http://test.com/teståäötest";

NSLog(@"url with string! %@", [NSURL URLWithString:string]);
NSLog(@"url with escaped string! %@", [NSURL URLWithString:
  [string stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]]);

with output

url with string! (null)
url with escaped string! http://test.com/test%C3%A5%C3%A4%C3%B6test

Answer 2

I am not sure about AFNetworking, but I would do it as below with Apple's NSURL.

Assume your URL is a string named "googlapiurl", your NSURL should be initiated as:

[NSURL URLWithString:[googlapiurl stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding]];

Hope it helps.