Emoji characters cannot be encoded to JSON

Question

I have a UITextView which I call messageField. The data within that messageField is POST-ed to server in JSON format. When th

Answer 1

I use the below code to encode emoji character

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

And the below code to decode and display in UILabel

const char *jsonString = [body UTF8String]; 
NSData *jsonData = [NSData dataWithBytes:jsonString length:strlen(jsonString)]; 
NSString *goodMsg = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:jsonData encoding:NSNonLossyASCIIStringEncoding];