Locale-Sensitive Objective-C Method

Foundation NSString

NSString floatValue

Internationalization (I18n) Method Overview

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I18n Issues

This method does not take locale into account. When converting from string to numeric type, use an NSScanner object method for localized scanning of numeric values from a string, e.g., scanInt, scanInteger, scanDecimal, scanDouble, or scanFloat.

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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