Question: How can I convert the special character `\u0097` into NsString?

Answer: 
You can try the following: 

```
const unichar cStringArray[] = { 0x0097, 0};
NSString* tmp = [NSString stringWithCharacters:cStringArray length:sizeof cStringArray / sizeof *cStringArray];

```

I tried the above code and bound the resulting string to a NSTextField.  

The textfield did not display any character.
What glyph are you expecting?  

<http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0097/index.htm> shows a hyphen.
Try 

```
[NSString stringWithUTF8String:"Some text-"] 

```

where the '-' is your character entered with the Special Characters Panel ⌥⌘T