Re: NSNumberFormatter negative and NSWindowsLatin1
Re: NSNumberFormatter negative and NSWindowsLatin1
- Subject: Re: NSNumberFormatter negative and NSWindowsLatin1
- From: Peter Edberg <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 13:28:05 -0700
This is intentional. The character is ‘−’ U+2212 MINUS SIGN with UTF-8 representation 0xE2 0x88 0x92. Many locales prefer the proper Unicode minus sign for negative numbers, instead of using U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS.
Seems like the bug here is trying to save the file as WindowsLatin1.
- Peter E
On Aug 7, 2014, at 12:00 PM, email@hidden wrote:
> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 08:43:04 +0200
> From: Totte Alm <email@hidden>
> To: "email@hidden List" <email@hidden>
> Subject: NSNumberFormatter negative and NSWindowsLatin1
> Message-ID: <email@hidden>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252
>
> Hello,
>
>
> In 10.9 I (or a client really) just stumbled upon a weirdness regarding NSNumberFornatter (Swedish default settings), where a negative number is transformed to a string and that string is later written to a file using NSString Write..
>
> The - sign (minus) that NSNumberFormatter puts into the string is a special UTF-8 character /u8892 and it won’t convert when saving the file as WindowsLatin1, NSString write giving an error.
>
> Workaround:
>
> [doubleFormatter setMinusSign:@"-"];
>
> Anyone knows if this is intentional or just a bug that needs to be filed on radar?
>
> / Totte
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