Convert utf8 char in a NSString

Question

Hi to all! I recieve from my server a XML file. I use NSXMLParser to retrieve attributes and values. The problem is this: i've many utf8 encoded char in many attributes, and i recieve them in NSStrings.
//in - (void)parser:(NSXMLParser *)parser didStartElement:(NSString *)elementName namespaceURI:(NSString *)namespaceURI qualifiedName:(NSString *)qName attributes:(NSDictionary *)attributeDict DELEGATE
NSString *myAttribute = [[NSString alloc] initWithString:[attributeDict valueForKey:@"attribute"]];
The NSString at key "attribute" can contain UTF8 char as ò and similar.
How can i decode them to obtain a NSString with ò instead of ò and so on?

Answer 1

I understood that you helped me, I will need to use
parseInt to convert the string to number...No.
Assuming you've got the "15:00" part, say in a String called timeStr, you'd just pass that to dateFormat.parse(timeStr)
but I
need to know where in the String are my numbers...
isn't it? How may I do this? Well, that depends.
What's your logic for finding it manually? Is it the first occurrence of any numerical digit in the string? Is it at a known, fixed character index? Some other logic?