Non-working Unicode-character-in-RTF-parsing code from http://stackoverflow.com/a/20944359/30461 .

gistfile1.m

//http://stackoverflow.com/a/20944359/30461

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[]) {
	@autoreleasepool {
		NSString *unicodedString = @"{\\rtf1\\ansi\\ansicpg1252\\cocoartf1265"
		@"{\\fonttbl\\f0\\fswiss\\fcharset0 Helvetica;\\f1\\fnil\\fcharset0 LucidaGrande;}"
		@"{\\colortbl;\\red255\\green255\\blue255;}"
		@"{\\*\\listtable{\\list\\listtemplateid1\\listhybrid{\\listlevel\\levelnfc23\\levelnfcn23\\leveljc0\\leveljcn0\\levelfollow0\\levelstartat1\\levelspace360\\levelindent0{\\*\\levelmarker \\{check\\}}{\\leveltext\\leveltemplateid1\\'01\\uc0\\u10003 ;}{\\levelnumbers;}\\fi-360\\li720\\lin720 }{\\listname ;}\\listid1}}"
		@"{\\*\\listoverridetable{\\listoverride\\listid1\\listoverridecount0\\ls1}}"
		@"\\paperw11900\\paperh16840\\margl1440\\margr1440\\vieww22880\\viewh16200\\viewkind0"
		@"\\pard\\li720\\fi-720\\pardirnatural"
		@"\\ls1\\ilvl0"
		@"\\f0\\fs24 \\cf0 {\\listtext    "
		@"\\f1 \\uc0\\u10003 "
		@"\\f0     }One\\"
		@"{\\listtext  "
		@"\\f1 \\uc0\\u10003 "
		@"\\f0     }Two\\"
		@"}";
		NSData *unicodedStringData = [unicodedString dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
		NSString *emojiStringValue = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:unicodedStringData encoding:NSNonLossyASCIIStringEncoding];
		NSLog(@"emojiStringValue: %@", emojiStringValue);
	}
	return EXIT_SUCCESS;
}