NSString with emoticons/emojis url encode

Question

I am trying to take the contents of a UITextField that may contain special characters and emojis and turn it into something I can pass in a GET request to a PHP service.

Answer 1

You can use the below code to encode emoji string

NSString *uniText = [NSString stringWithUTF8String:[youremojistring UTF8String]];
NSData *msgData = [uniText dataUsingEncoding:NSNonLossyASCIIStringEncoding];
NSString *goodMsg = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:msgData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];