Emoji iCons are not displaying correctly when read from plist

Question

Hi Guys, I am trying to read some text from a plist file and display it to the users in alert box.

When I build the string using this code, everything works (users sees Hello with a smily icon):

NSString *hello = @"Hello \ue415";

but when I get the string from plist, using this code, uses sees "Hello \ue415":

NString *hello =  (NSString *)[pageLiteratureDic objectForKey:litratureKey];

Do I have to encode string differently? Any help or pointers will be much appreciated... everyone love emojis ;)

Answer 1

In the plist, instead of "Hello \ue415" try using the smily face character explicitly as in "Hello :)". Just cut and paste the smily character over the unicode code. The reading of the plist is probably escaping the backslash and stopping the interpretation as a unicode character.