Michael Tsai on Twitter: "@mikeabdullah @apontious Docs say that -stringWithFormat: uses the “canonical locale” and that %@ calls -descriptionWithLocale:."

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Andrew Pontious ‏@apontious 13 Oct 2013

Things I didn’t miss from Mac 64-bit programming on iOS — Apple ridiculous inability to handle NSInteger well in format strings.
zachary ‏@zadr 13 Oct 2013

@apontious %zd for NSInteger, %tu for NSUInteger. No warnings on either arch.
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Andrew Pontious ‏@apontious 13 Oct 2013

@zadr @boredzo @gparker Appreciate the responses. Doesn’t feel forward-compatible, though.
Michael Tsai ‏@mjtsai 14 Oct 2013

@apontious Is there a good reason not to use “%@“ and box the numbers?
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Mike Abdullah ‏@mikeabdullah 14 Oct 2013

@mjtsai @apontious that does put you slightly at the mercy of the user's locale which I worry about

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@mikeabdullah @apontious Docs say that -stringWithFormat: uses the “canonical locale” and that %@ calls -descriptionWithLocale:.

6:59 AM - 15 Oct 2013

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