Re: Copying files with special characters

[Andreas Höschler]

Hi Fred and Nicolaus,

> The method you are looking for is [NSFileManager 
> fileSystemRepresentationWithPath:], but don't expect to much, it 
> relies on [NSString defaultCStringEncoding].

> system([[NSString stringWithFormat:@"cp -r '%s' '%s'", [sourcePath
> fileSystemRepresentation], [destPath fileSystemRepresentation]]
> cString]);
>
> This is NOT safe for file names that include quotes.

Thanks for your hints. Yes, I fell over the cString conversion problem. 
It crashed my app. By utilizing lossyCString I was able to find a 
workaround. It works now more or less with spaces and special 
characters in the filename, though the special characters get kicked 
out when the file is written back to the filesystem. I can live with 
that.

Thanks a lot!

Regards,

 Andreas