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 protected] wrote: > Message: 5 > Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2014 08:43:04 +0200 > From: Totte Alm <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected] List" <[email protected]> > Subject: NSNumberFormatter negative and NSWindowsLatin1 > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > 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 _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [email protected]
