Emoji in string in UIImage(named: string) does not work

the code below does not execute, and the image does not load:

if let faceCardImage =  UIImage(named: "J♥") {
            faceCardImage.draw(in: bounds.zoom(by: SizeRatio.faceCardImageSizeToBoundsSize))
        }

Do you mean image is nil ?

I tested in an app:

loaded an image named "Pho😀to" in resources

Called in viewDidLoad:

let faceCardImage = UIImage(named: "Pho😀to")

print(faceCardImage)

gets:

Optional(<UIImage:0x600000db4f30 named(Pho😀to) {24, 19}>)

I tested by moving to xcassets and removing from resources list.

Same correct result.

So problem is not emoji. Probably you have not copied the name correctly.

To exactly mimic your code, I changed the name as "Photo😀".

Works OK as well

let faceCardImage = UIImage(named: "Photo😀")

print(faceCardImage)

Optional(<UIImage:0x6000027e53b0 named(Photo😀) {24, 19}>)

Where do you call this code ?

When I do the call with a string containing only lettere, like yours UIImage(named: "Photos") it works.

Thats the equivalent of my working example UIImage(named: "11j".

It is when the call is made with a string that contains un emoji. UIImage(named: "J♥") that it does not work.

The result of the if let statement returns nil.

The name of the image in the Asset folder is "J♥".

So it is not a matter of a name that is not copied correctly.

Sorry, Claude 31, your post did not show up correctly, so I answered it wrong.

I tried a simple if let in a small program where it worked , but when pasting the code into my app it did not work.

So I'll go back to the drawing board and find the cause elsewhere in the program.

Thaks for your help

To get past this problem, I manually recreated the imagesets for the assets. (previously I had copied them from GitHub).

This solved the issue. There must have been something wrong with the emoji used in the naming or in the imagefile.