Question

I’m building a service to push out notifications to iOS devices over APNS. Everything is working great, except for the fact that if the message text includes the £ (British Pound) or € (Euro) characters then the notification is not sent by APNS. I don’t think this is a JSON issue as they don’t normally need escaping (I’ve tried escaping them anyway to no avail). Is there something I need to do in order to support the whole character set?

Answer 1

Have you tried the JSON ASCII escape for Unicode? Send \u00A3 for £ and \u20AC for €.

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