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Rahul gupta
Rahul gupta

Reputation: 129

How to decode \\u00e2\\u0080\\u0099 in iOS

I am getting following characters:

\\u00e2\\u0080\\u0099

from server side and I want to decode this into its correct character which is "`" so please let me know how I can do this in swift.

I don't want to use replace string method as I want a generic solution which should work for all unicode to string conversion.

Thanks,

Upvotes: 2

Views: 3185

Answers (1)

jlasierra
jlasierra

Reputation: 1106

If you mean "\\u00e2\\u0080\\u0099" the string of 18 characters, you have to unescape it to convert these sequences to their actual values.

This is a possible way to do it:

let input = "located in the heart of Wanchai\\u00e2\\u0080\\u0099s Star"
let str = String(data: input.data(using: .utf8)!, encoding: String.Encoding.nonLossyASCII)

This gives "located in the heart of Wanchaiâs Star".

As has already been said, "\\u00e2\\u0080\\u0099" represents a "â".

Upvotes: 1

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