Re: setlocale() [Was: Re: NSNumberFormater test fails]

[Wolfgang Lux]

Eric Wasylishen wrote:

> One interesting thing is neither NSLog nor -[NSString stringWithFormat:], on 
> Cocoa or GNUstep, use the locale's decimal point (regardless of the setting 
> of the AppKit locale, or the libc locale.)

Which may be less interesting if you read the documentation of the NSString 
class. In the discussion of +stringWithFormat: you can find this in Apple's 
documentation 
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#documentation/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSString_Class/Reference/NSString.html%23//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40003744

This method is similar to localizedStringWithFormat:, but using the canonical 
locale to format numbers. This is useful, for example, if you want to produce 
“non-localized” formatting which needs to be written out to files and parsed 
back later.

So it is nice to know that things actually work as documented. :-)

Wolfgang