Save ios smiley in database mysql

Question

i have a small problem, in fact in one of my application, user can add a comment and if he activate the smiley keyBoard he can insert a smiley but in database it saved something like this ' ŸŽðŸ¶ðŸ‘', and in iphone it appear like this  , its normal :) but have you a solution to retrieve this smiley in my app ( encode ,decode .. ) ?

thank you .

Answer 1

The characters you're describing here are from the Emoji character set of UTF-8. Here's the documentation you need, along with a tutorial for a related encoding problem.