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Allan Jiang
Allan Jiang

Reputation: 11331

iOS emoji messed up in UILabel

I am using a open source UILabel subclass STTweetLabel v2.22 (Github) and trying to show emoji in the label. During my test it seems that the code can handle most cases correctly but sometimes I see this:

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Just wondering why this could happen, and what could be a possible fix I should look into..

Thanks!

-- Update (adding code used to decode strings from server) -- 

 NSData *data = [content dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
 NSString *decoded = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:data encoding:NSNonLossyASCIIStringEncoding];

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1030

Answers (2)

Jay Mehta
Jay Mehta

Reputation: 1441

Hi I have got one solution for that library you can find height with emoji. Please use <CoreText/CoreText.h> framework and use below code.

  - (CGFloat)heightStringWithEmojis:(NSString*)str fontType:(UIFont *)uiFont ForWidth:(CGFloat)width {

    // Get text
    CFMutableAttributedStringRef attrString = CFAttributedStringCreateMutable(kCFAllocatorDefault, 0);
    CFAttributedStringReplaceString (attrString, CFRangeMake(0, 0), (CFStringRef) str );
    CFIndex stringLength = CFStringGetLength((CFStringRef) attrString);

    // Change font
    CTFontRef ctFont = CTFontCreateWithName((__bridge CFStringRef) uiFont.fontName, uiFont.pointSize, NULL);
    CFAttributedStringSetAttribute(attrString, CFRangeMake(0, stringLength), kCTFontAttributeName, ctFont);

    // Calc the size
    CTFramesetterRef framesetter = CTFramesetterCreateWithAttributedString(attrString);
    CFRange fitRange;
    CGSize frameSize = CTFramesetterSuggestFrameSizeWithConstraints(framesetter, CFRangeMake(0, 0), NULL, CGSizeMake(width, CGFLOAT_MAX), &fitRange);

    CFRelease(ctFont);
    CFRelease(framesetter);
    CFRelease(attrString);

    return frameSize.height +4;

}

Let me know thoughts....!!!

Upvotes: 2

zaph
zaph

Reputation: 112857

Several things:

Do not use encoding:NSNonLossyASCIIStringEncoding, emoji are not ASCII. Use NSUTF8StringEncoding.

Why are you converting to NSData and then back to an NSString? That makes no sense.

There is something else going on here.

Upvotes: 0

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