iPhone UILabel - non breaking space

Question

Is there a way to use non breaking spaces in UILabel text?

For example, I have label with 2 lines and line breaking mode set to word wrap. The content for this label is read from database, where it's stored as a string. Now sometimes my text in label looks like that:

lorem ipsum some text 1 

but I want to display it like that:

lorem ipsum some text 1 

so basicly, I need to force non breaking space between 'text' and '1'.

I've found some solution here, but I think it could work when the text is entered in source code file. In my case the text is in database.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Use the no-break space (\u00a0) ex: @"hello**\u00a0**world!"

post.text = [postText stringByAppendingString: @"1\u00a0hour\u00a0ago."]; 

U+00A0 / no-break space / Common Separator, space

from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitespace_character

Answer 2

For Swift:

let sentence = "Barcelona, Real Madryt, Juventus Turyn, Bayern Monachium" let sentencewithnbsp = String(map(sentence.generate()) {     $0 == " " ? "\u{00a0}" : $0 })