iOS: How to display special characters in Swift [NSString]

Question

I am sending data via socket.io my app, which I want to embed the text of a parameter in a UILabel

Javascript server

socket.emit("app",{ac:"organización"})

iOS App

var ac = self.jsonOFsocket["ac"] as String
//ac === "organización"
self.label.text = ac
//self.label.text === "organizaci\U00f3n"

The socket.io the app sends unencrypted characters.
The app successfully receives all characters
The app shows different symbols

I try to do this:

func utf(txt:String) -> NSString {
   var newTxt = NSString(format:txt, NSUTF8StringEncoding)
   newTxt.precomposedStringWithCanonicalMapping
   return newTxt
}

var ac = self.jsonOFsocket["ac"] as String
//ac === "organización"
self.label.text = uft(ac)
//self.label.text === "organizaciââ¥n"

This is important:

organizaciââ¥n

Math is Hard · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-07 21:51:10Z

1

This is the Objective-C way:

NSData *data = [MyString dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
NSString *stringWithSpecialCharacters = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSNonLossyASCIIStringEncoding];

You'll have to store the proper string format on your server too and make sure it returns the right string via curl.

answered Apr 7, 2015 at 21:51

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eliasRuizHz Over a year ago

Thanks, it has served me well !!

var ns = NSString(string: "poblaci\\U00f3n")  var data:NSData = ns.dataUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)! var sc = NSString(data:data,encoding:NSNonLossyASCIIStringEncoding)

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