Re: Issue with NSDateFormatter on Windows with ICU...

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 27 Nov 2012, at 18:18, Gregory Casamento wrote:

> 
> Here is what is being sent....
> 
> (gdb) p *(NSDateFormatterInternal *)_internal
> $3 = {{isa = 0x6702f740}, _behavior = 0, _locale = 0x41f9a28,
>   _tz = 0x278ce08, _timeStyle = 0, _dateStyle = 0, _formatter = 0x0}
> (gdb) p NSToUDateFormatStyle(0)
> $4 = -1
> (gdb) po ((NSDateFormatterInternal *)_internal)->_locale
> en_US
> (gdb) p tzID
> $6 = (
>     UChar *) 0x4202b80 "E\000a\000s\000t\000e\000r\000n\000 
> \000S\000t\000a\000n
> \000d\000a\000r"

The thing that strikes me instantly is that we are looking at unicode (16bit 
characters).
Could it be that the ICU library routine is expecting ascii or utf-8, but 
because windows uses 16bit characters natively it's getting confused?
If so, that would be easy to fix.