Ios – How to enter unicode characters in a UILabel in Interface Builder

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I would like to display a unicode character (the speaker symbol U+1F50A) in label.
Is it possible to enter this symbol in Interface Builder?

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Yes, you can click "Edit" > "Special Characters…" — there you can find all unicode characters (including the emoji) and copy/paste them where you set the label text in Interface Builder.

EDIT: In Xcode 6 it's "Edit" > "Emoji & Characters"

Xcode 7+: "Edit" > "Emoji & Symbols"

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# accented_string is of type 'unicode'
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