XCode, String encoding, cyrillic letters - ios

Question

I have an issue with my iPhone application or rather Xcode.
I am currently trying to convert a string that i get from Google Translate to a string format that supports cyrillic letters. i tried many String Encodings so far, but none of them seem to work properly.
Here is my code so far:
NSString *word = #"hello";
NSString *urlPath = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"/translate_a/t?client=t&text=%#&langpair=en|ru",word];
NSURL *url = [[NSURL alloc] initWithScheme:#"http" host:#"translate.google.com" path:urlPath];
NSMutableURLRequest *request = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] init];
[request setURL:url];
[request setHTTPMethod:#"GET"];
NSURLResponse *response;
NSError *error;
NSData *data;
data = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:request returningResponse:&response error:&error];
NSString *result = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSASCIIStringEncoding];
NSLog(#"%#", result);
And this is the result on the console:
[
[
[
"ÐÒÉ×ÅÔ",
"hello",
"privet",
""
]
],
[
[
"verb",
[
"ÚÄÏÒÏ×ÁÔØÓÑ",
"Ú×ÁÔØ",
"ÏËÌÉËÁÔØ"
],
[
[
"ÚÄÏÒÏ×ÁÔØÓÑ",
[
"greet",
"hello",
"salute",
"hullo",
"hallo",
"halloa"
],
,
0.0050860695
],
[
"Ú×ÁÔØ",
[
"call",
"invite",
"shout",
"hail",
"hallo",
"hello"
],
,
2.7109536e-05
],
[
"ÏËÌÉËÁÔØ",
[
"hail",
"holler",
"call",
"challenge",
"speak",
"hello"
],
,
2.7109536e-05
]
],
"hello",
2
],
[
"noun",
[
"ÐÒÉ×ÅÔÓÔ×ÉÅ",
"ÐÒÉ×ÅÔÓÔ×ÅÎÎÙÊ ×ÏÚÇÌÁÓ",
"×ÏÚÇÌÁÓ ÕÄÉ×ÌÅÎÉÑ"
],
[
[
"ÐÒÉ×ÅÔÓÔ×ÉÅ",
[
"greeting",
"welcome",
"salute",
"hail",
"salutation",
"hello"
],
,
0.0014801305
],
[
"ÐÒÉ×ÅÔÓÔ×ÅÎÎÙÊ ×ÏÚÇÌÁÓ",
[
"hallo",
"halloa",
"viva",
"hello"
],
,
2.7536449e-05
],
[
"×ÏÚÇÌÁÓ ÕÄÉ×ÌÅÎÉÑ",
[
"hallo",
"halloa",
"hello"
],
,
2.7109536e-05
]
],
"hello",
1
]
],
"en",
,
[
[
"ÐÒÉ×ÅÔ",
[
1
],
true,
false,
1000,
0,
1,
0
]
],
[
[
"hello",
1,
[
[
"ÐÒÉ×ÅÔ",
1000,
true,
false
],
[
"úÄÒÁ×ÓÔ×ÕÊÔÅ",
0,
true,
false
],
[
"Hello",
0,
true,
false
],
[
"úÄÒÁ×ÓÔ×ÕÊ",
0,
true,
false
],
[
"ÈÅÌÌÏ",
0,
true,
false
]
],
[
[
0,
5
]
],
"hello"
]
],
,
[
,
"Hello!",
[
10
],
,
true
],
[
],
2
]
So i hope you get my problem. I want the string to be "привет" and not "ÐÒÉ×ÅÔ".
When i tried to encode the data to other formats i usually get a "(null)" result to my string, like for NSUTF8StringEncoding for example.

Answer 1

"translate.google.com" returns UTF-8 with the following parameters:
NSString *urlPath = [NSString stringWithFormat:#"/translate_a/t?client=t&text=%#&langpair=en|ru&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8",word];
Then
NSString *result = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
should work.

Answer 2

Call this method on the data you're getting instead of initWithData:encoding::
- (NSString*)decodeKOI8R:(NSData*)dataToDecode {
CFStringRef aCFString = CFStringCreateWithCString(NULL, [dataToDecode bytes], kCFStringEncodingKOI8_R);
NSString *decodedString = (__bridge NSString*)aCFString;
return decodedString;
}