Locale-Sensitive Objective-C Method

Foundation NSString

NSString stringByAppendingFormat:

Internationalization (I18n) Method Overview

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I18n Issues

This method is indicative of concatenation of fragment strings to construct a sentence or paragraph. It's a step better than appending, but still wrong unless you are constructing a complete sentence or equivalent.

Resolution: Construct a more comprehensive sentence level string including punctuation and incorporating variables to be substituted using one of the following: initWithFormat, initWithFormat:arguments, initWithFormat:locale, initWithFormat:locale:arguments, stringWithFormat, or localizedStringWithFormat.

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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