7 aug 2014 kl. 22:28 skrev Peter Edberg <[email protected]>: > 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.
The problem is that this worked before 10.9 and the issue is that a customer of my client needs a WindowsLatin1 file (I don’t know why, but that is the requirement), and I use NSNumberFormatter to format numbers fetched from a database placing them into a a text file, and this is done by a cmdline tool fired off from the main app. 7 aug 2014 kl. 23:02 skrev Jens Alfke <[email protected]>: > - (NSData *)dataUsingEncoding:(NSStringEncoding)encoding > allowLossyConversion:(BOOL)lossy; I will try that (how did I miss that call??) Thanks, /Totte > - 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]
