iphone - Prevent Emoji Characters from Showing

Question

I use a few special uniode chars in my app, but since iOS 5 these have been replaced with emoji characters. How can I force the unicode characters to be displayed and not the emoji characters? Thanks

Answer 1

This is an old question but it plagued me a lot recently until I found the answer.

Just add 'U0000FE0E' after the character that we want to prevent from becoming an emoji.

For example:

@"?"  // should be written as:
@"?U0000FE0E"

Using the escaped unicode works as well:

@"u25B6"  // should be written as:
@"u25B6U0000FE0E"

We need to use Unicode variants to prevent certain characters from becoming emoji.

Here is the article that solved my problem.