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

One possible solution (explanations "inline"):

let charAsString = "1f44d"

// Convert hex string to numeric value first:
var charCode : UInt32 = 0
let scanner = NSScanner(string: charAsString)
if scanner.scanHexInt(&charCode) {

    // Create string from Unicode code point:
    let str = String(UnicodeScalar(charCode))
    println(str) //