Print unicode character from variable (swift)

Question

I have a problem I couldn\'t find a solution to. I have a string variable holding the unicode \"1f44d\" and I want to convert it to a unicode character

Answer 1

This can be done in two steps:

1. convert charAsString to Int code
2. convert code to unicode character

Second step can be done e.g. like this

var code = 0x1f44d
var scalar = UnicodeScalar(code)
var string = "\(scalar)"

As for first the step, see here how to convert String in hex representation to Int