On Apr 19, 2012, at 6:57 AM, Kirk Kerekes wrote:

> 
> On Apr 18, 2012, at 2:00 PM, cocoa-dev-requ...@lists.apple.com wrote:
> 
>> Re: Displaying '%' in the UI (Velocityboy)
> 
> As a possibly more clear alternative to escaping the %, you could use:
> 
> [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%.0f%@",ratio1, @"%"]
> 
> Or, even more cocoa-fied ObjC:
> 
> [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@%@",[NSNumber numberWithFloat: ratio1], @"%"]
> 
> (trusting NSNumber's -description method for formatting)
> 
> or,
> 
> [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%ul%@",[[NSNumber numberWithFloat: ratio1] 
> integerValue], @"%"]

I strongly recommend just using NSNumberFormatter with 
NSNumberFormatterPercentStyle, which formats percentage values according to the 
user's locale.

Preston
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