Showing Emoji with string in textfield in swift

Question

I am new to swift development. I need to show the emoji inside the text field and labels. I also need to send them to server because Application is multi-platform.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23670959/how-to-show-emoji-in-uilabel-ios and — iPatel, Jul 07 '16 at 06:39
Possible duplicate of [UILabel not showing emoji](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/31059988/uilabel-not-showing-emoji) — Raj Aggrawal, Oct 27 '17 at 11:40

score 10 · Answer 1 · edited Feb 07 '21 at 22:32

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On Xcode version 7.2.1+, you can use the below shortcut to show the symbols panels and insert the emoji:

Shortcut: (press the below three keys together)

Ctrl + Command + Space

edited Feb 07 '21 at 22:32

aheze

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answered Jul 07 '16 at 08:58

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score 9 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 07 '16 at 06:59

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You can declare a string variable with text and an emoji inside using its unicode number (1F603 is unicode number for an open faced smiley), like so:

let str : String = "Smiley \u{1F603}"

Then with your UITextField/UILabel, set the .text attribute to be the string.

yourTextField.text = str
//or for a UILabel.
yourLabel.text = str

answered Jul 07 '16 at 06:59

mdhomer

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Is this unicode iOS only or can be used on all platforms – Raj Aggrawal Jul 07 '16 at 08:54
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Unicode Defination - an international encoding standard for use with different languages and scripts, by which each letter, digit, or symbol is assigned a unique numeric value that applies across different platforms and programs. So yeah, It will be consistent on other platforms. – shivamkaushik Jul 07 '16 at 08:56
@shivamkaushik Please give me any source of Unicode to clear out the topic – Raj Aggrawal Jul 07 '16 at 10:37
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Here is an extensive list of Emoji codes. Use the five characters after the U+ http://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts/full-emoji-list.html – Ben Jul 15 '20 at 02:23

score 5 · Answer 3 · edited Feb 11 '17 at 07:07

textField.text=@"";

for above Emoji --- put the focus at place of emoji in UITextField and go to

Edit > Emoji & Symbols in Xcode 7.3 and select what ever emoji you want.

OR

Set Unicode values directly in code:

var string: String = "I want to visit मुंबई. "
var character: Character = ""

Use hexadecimal to set values

var string: String = "\u{61}\u{5927}\u{1F34E}\u{3C0}"

var character: Character = "\u{65}\u{301}"

Showing Emoji with string in textfield in swift

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