Displaying special characters in a UILabel

Asked Sep 17 '18 at 09:11

Active Sep 17 '18 at 09:21

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I have a string which contains a mix of normal text and special characters. When setting the label text with this string the character codes are being displayed rather than the actual character. I was wondering is there any support for special characters or if there is a way to decode the values?

I have tried stringWithCString but haven't had any luck with it.

Setting:

self.stringLabel.text = myNSString

Result:

Hello world!

Ã¨Ã©&ecirc;&euml;ÄÄÄ

&yuml;

&ucirc;&uuml;&ugrave;&uacute;Å«

Anyone else come across a similar issue?

edited Sep 17 '18 at 09:21

asked Sep 17 '18 at 09:11

Where do you get the string from, what does it actually look like, what is your current code? – luk2302 Sep 17 '18 at 09:12
@luk2302 Just updated the question – Sep 17 '18 at 09:18
and where do you get the string from? – luk2302 Sep 17 '18 at 09:19
@luk2302 The string comes back from an API call – Sep 17 '18 at 09:22
Have you tried something like https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4913499/utf8-character-decoding-in-objective-c ? – luk2302 Sep 17 '18 at 09:23
Thats one of the posts I looked at before but got **[NSString stringWithCString:encoding:]: NULL cString** – Sep 17 '18 at 09:36

Displaying special characters in a UILabel

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