URL Path Retrieval Cheat Sheet
As Cocoa developers, there’s quite a broad range of APIs available to us for pulling out the path component of a URL. I often forget the particular quirks of them, so here’s a handy cheat sheet to bring all that together.
Without reading the documentation, you might have assumed that CFURLCopyPath() and -[NSURL path] were equivalent.
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All of them treat URL paths as strings, which is problematic when the path character encoding is unknown.
@Jim Are you saying it’s a problem that -[NSURL path] assumes Unicode when decoding the percent escapes? Or are you referring to something else?
