NSURLRequest with a URL containing special characters

Question

I have the same problem as: NSURL with special characters

But I tried to solve them. Unable to get my NSURLRequest to work with åöä characters. If the string variable contains åöä, the query returns null. Also tried with NSISOLatin1StringEncoding.

NSString *encodedString = [string stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]; NSString *urlString = [NSString stringWithFormat: @"http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?output=firefox&q=%@", encodedString]; NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString: urlString]; NSURLRequest *request = [[NSURLRequest alloc] initWithURL:url]; 

This works: http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?output=firefox&q=%C3%A5%C3%B6%C3%A4 (åöä)

Any ideas?

EDIT: Using the debugger, NSURL looks right:

 string __NSCFString * @"åäö" 0x0a77cd60 encodedString __NSCFString * @"%C3%A5%C3%A4%C3%B6" 0x0a77fc40 url NSURL * @"http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?output=firefox&q=%C3%A5%C3%A4%C3%B6" 0x0a79d1f0 

It is resolved . The problem is not NSURL, as the interpretation of the returned NSDATA.