title: Displaying Musical Unicode Symbols in iOS UI with Swift
body: <p>I am currently developing an iOS app that works a lot with musical symbols. the symbols I would like to use are found on this page:</p>
  
  <p><a href="http://unicode-table.com/en/blocks/musical-symbols/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://unicode-table.com/en/blocks/musical-symbols/</a></p>
  
  <p>I am trying out a few examples like assigning the text directly to the label. So this is what I see in Xcode's interface builder:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/WzFaz.png" alt="Label seen in interface builder"></p>
  
  <p>And this is what I see in the simulator:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/hFDUu.png" alt="Label seen in interface builder"></p>
  
  <p>I also tried assigning it programatically (Swift code):</p>
  
  <pre><code>label.text = "\u{1D15D}"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But no luck that way either. However, if I send this to the console with <code>println()</code> the note character is correctly printed in the console.</p>
  
  <p>Just in case I tried with a few system fonts and the result was the same (Default, Arial, Verdana and Times New Roman)</p>
  
  <p>So my question/questions would be: Am I doing something wrong? Are these characters not supported by iOS' interface elements like UILabels? Or maybe the problem is in the font?</p>
  
  <p>I would appreciate some help here :) let me know if you need more information than what I provided here.</p>