Swift Post Special and Foreign characters

Question

For the posting I am using

 var post = \"content=\\(message)&post=\\(time)\"

But when I enter something like € for variable message, I

Answer 1

You have to use stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding when using special charactheres in your NSURL as follow:

var post = "content=€&post=€".stringByAddingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding(NSUTF8StringEncoding)!

println(post)  // "content=%E2%82%AC&post=%E2%82%AC"


var revert = "content=%E2%82%AC&post=%E2%82%AC".stringByRemovingPercentEncoding!
println(revert) // "content=€&post=€"