iPhone how to write symbol on a label?

Question

I am going to develop the iPhone app. But I got stuck with one place. I want to write some symbol on the label from the xib file.

The symbols are not on the keyboard but we can get it by the ASCII value.

e.g: the ACSII value for the character sign "mue" is 230 but how to print that symbol "mue" on the label that i dont know.

So please help me for that.

Thanks in advance.

possible duplicate of [iphone - display encoded characters like å,ä,ö in UILabel](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9416237/iphone-display-encoded-characters-like-a-a-o-in-uilabel) — Parth Bhatt, Mar 27 '12 at 09:55
Also possible duplicate to: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7061707/displaying-special-characters-from-other-encodings-in-uilabel-or-similar — Parth Bhatt, Mar 27 '12 at 09:57
@ParthBhatt : Anyway i have reported to moderator. He/She will check for the posibility. And for your information. Its not the duplicate question. — Shreyash Mahajan, Mar 27 '12 at 10:05
@ParthBhatt: I want is to put the symbol on the label name During Development not during run time to set it. Anyway leave it. — Shreyash Mahajan, Mar 27 '12 at 10:07
Refer to **Sedate Alien**'s answer in the link http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7061707/displaying-special-characters-from-other-encodings-in-uilabel-or-similar. I think that is what you want. So it is a duplicate — Parth Bhatt, Mar 27 '12 at 10:09
@ParthBhatt : I already got the Solution and have solved it. — Shreyash Mahajan, Mar 27 '12 at 10:10
@ParthBhatt: I also want same thing so Have a Happy Coding. bye. :) — Shreyash Mahajan, Mar 27 '12 at 10:12

Ranjith · Answer 1 · 2022-03-14T10:36:37.687

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Pressing Cmd+Ctrl+Space will open a special characters menu. Check if the desired symbol is present. If it isn't, click the gear icon, then select the desired category — add it to the list.

See screenshot below

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answered Jan 30 '18 at 13:51

Ranjith

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score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 27 '12 at 09:43

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Use whatever editor you like to produce that character, and open your xib in XCode and just copy/paste it in?

answered Mar 27 '12 at 09:43

Clafou

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Devang · Answer 3 · 2012-04-07T17:42:46.813

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Use NSUTF8StringEncoding to encode your string.

For example,

NSString *str = [NSString stringWithUTF8String:"your string for encoding"];

[lblName setText:str];

Following function will also help :

- (NSString *) decodedString:(NSString *) originalString {
    NSString *newString = [NSString stringWithUTF8String:[originalString cStringUsingEncoding:[NSString defaultCStringEncoding]]];
    return newString;
}

I suggest to use above function.

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answered Mar 27 '12 at 09:44

Devang

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Thanks for the Answer. But i want to show it in to the Label text. – Shreyash Mahajan Mar 27 '12 at 09:52
I have accepted the answer. And that one is the Simplest way to do it. Thanks for the Answer. – Shreyash Mahajan Mar 27 '12 at 10:00
@Devang Your solution was good and it working fine. But In my project I we are enter text in arabic language. And if we encode and decode text the arabic text was not display. are you have any idea to resolve it .. – MinuMaster Jun 03 '15 at 14:16

Matthias Bauch · Answer 4 · 2012-03-27T09:50:24.627

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Open the "Special Characters"-Panel and search for your character. You can find it at the bottom of the edit menu. There is a shortcut for it too, cmd+opt+t

Copy and paste your character from there to your UILabel.

and btw: option + m = µ

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answered Mar 27 '12 at 09:44

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score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 27 '12 at 09:45

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I think you mean the character 'µ', yes?

If so, you can simply type it into the label by clicking "option" and "m" on your Macintosh keyboard, when you are editing the label in your XIB.

answered Mar 27 '12 at 09:45

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score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Mar 27 '12 at 09:50

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If you can use the unicode number instead, you can do it like this:

NSString *muString = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%C", 0x03BC];

Write 0x then the unicode number.

answered Mar 27 '12 at 09:50

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score 2 · Answer 7 · answered Mar 27 '12 at 10:07

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You can simply type into label by using 'Alt' key + 'm' key on key board, when you are editing the label in your XIB and rest of symbols, you can get easily using 'Alt' key and other keys. You can fix 'Alt' key and change other keys(one by one).

answered Mar 27 '12 at 10:07

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Yes Thanks for the Sollution. I got answer. – Shreyash Mahajan Mar 27 '12 at 10:08

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