Locale-Sensitive Objective-C Method

Foundation NSDate

NSDate dateWithString:

Internationalization (I18n) Method Overview

This method performs date/string conversion without using locale.

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I18n Issues

This method does not use locale.

Resolution: Consider if yyyy-mm-dd format used in locale-insensitive methods is ok (it's fairly universal, but need to adjust any locale-sensitive methods to use it also). Alternatively you can explicitly set locale or format - pass locale or use a formatter than honors the currentLocale.

Generally one needs to pass in locale, encoding or language to ensure that any culture-dependent conversion is done properly. If you determine that the call is i18n-safe, you can use Globalyzer's Ignore Comment functionality to ensure that it isn't picked up in a subsequent scan.

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