Swift turn a country code into a emoji flag via unicode

Question

I\'m looking for a quick way to turn something like:

let germany = \"DE\" 

into

let flag = \"\\u{1f1e9}\\u{1f1ea}\"
         


        

Answer 1

To give more insight into matt answer

Swift 2 version

public static func flag(countryCode: String) -> Character {
    let base = UnicodeScalar("