将 UTF-8编码的 NSData 转换为 NSString

I have UTF-8 encoded NSData from windows server and I want to convert it to NSString for iPhone. Since data contains characters (like a degree symbol) which have different values on both platforms, how do I convert data to string?

You could call this method

+(id)stringWithUTF8String:(const char *)bytes.

Sometimes, the methods in the other answers don't work. In my case, I'm generating a signature with my RSA private key and the result is NSData. I found that this seems to work:

Objective-C

NSData *signature;
NSString *signatureString = [signature base64EncodedStringWithOptions:0];

Swift

let signatureString = signature.base64EncodedStringWithOptions(nil)

The Swift version from String to Data and back to String:

Xcode 9 • Swift 4

extension Data {
    var string: String {
        return String(data: self, encoding: .utf8) ?? ""
    }
}
extension String {
    var data: Data {
        return Data(utf8)
    }
    var base64Decoded: Data? {
        return Data(base64Encoded: self)
    }
}

Playground

let string = "Hello World"                                  // "Hello World"
let stringData = string.data                                // 11 bytes
let base64EncodedString = stringData.base64EncodedString()  // "SGVsbG8gV29ybGQ="
let stringFromData = stringData.string                      // "Hello World"

let base64String = "SGVsbG8gV29ybGQ="
if let data = base64String.base64Decoded {
    print(data)                                    //  11 bytes
    print(data.base64EncodedString())              // "SGVsbG8gV29ybGQ="
    print(data.string)                             // "Hello World"
}

let stringWithAccent = "Olá Mundo"                          // "Olá Mundo"
print(stringWithAccent.count)                               // "9"
let stringWithAccentData = stringWithAccent.data            // "10 bytes" note: an extra byte for the acute accent
let stringWithAccentFromData = stringWithAccentData.string  // "Olá Mundo\n"

Just to summarize, here's a complete answer, that worked for me.

My problem was that when I used

[NSString stringWithUTF8String:(char *)data.bytes];

The string I got was unpredictable: Around 70% it did contain the expected value, but too often it resulted with Null or even worse: garbaged at the end of the string.

After some digging I switched to

[[NSString alloc] initWithBytes:(char *)data.bytes length:data.length encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];

And got the expected result every time.