From: Alexis Laferrière <alexis.laf@xymus.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 21:01:17 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: lib/cocoa: add services to `NSString` to convert to Nit strings
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lib/cocoa: add services to `NSString` to convert to Nit strings

Signed-off-by: Alexis Laferrière <alexis.laf@xymus.net>
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diff --git a/lib/cocoa/foundation.nit b/lib/cocoa/foundation.nit
index 06c8ffd..c476df9 100644
--- a/lib/cocoa/foundation.nit
+++ b/lib/cocoa/foundation.nit
@@ -30,6 +30,11 @@ end
 # Created using `Text::to_nsstring`.
 extern class NSString in "ObjC" `{ NSString * `}
 	super NSObject
+
+	# Get an UTF8 encoded `char*` copy of `self`
+	fun utf8_string: NativeString in "ObjC" `{ return (char *)[self UTF8String]; `}
+
+	redef fun to_s do return utf8_string.to_s
 end
 
 redef class NativeString