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Re: Converting doubles to strings



On 11/10/05 4:27 PM, Deborah Goldsmith didst favor us with:

> Not correctly, because the locale of the BSD subsystem is nearly
> always set to the "C" locale, and the locale data in the BSD
> subsystem doesn't match the locale data used by CoreFoundation,
> Carbon, and Cocoa. If you need something that honor's the user's
> locale settings, you must use CFNumberFormatter.

Thanks. That's what I thought, but I just wanted to confirm it since the OP
seemed to want to use this to populate an editable text field.

Larry
> 
> Deborah Goldsmith
> Internationalization, Unicode liaison
> Apple Computer, Inc.
> email@hidden
> 
> On Nov 10, 2005, at 12:57 PM, Mike Kluev wrote:
> 
>> On Thu, 10 Nov 2005 14:05:13, Laurence Harris <email@hidden>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> On 11/10/05 1:58 PM, Ian Anderson didst favor us with:
>>> 
>>>> You could do something like:
>>>> CFStringRef myString = CFStringCreateWithFormat
>>>> (kCFAllocatorDefault, NULL,
>>>> CFSTR("%f"), myDouble);
>>> 
>>> Does this respect [language/locale/user] number formatting
>>> preferences?
>> 
>> Even bsd's sprintf does it.
>> 
>> Mike

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