Re: UIDatePicker displays incorrect day in UIDatePickerDateAndTime mode for zones 12+ hours ahead of defaultZone

2011-01-14 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
Did you write a bug for this? What is the bug number? Thanks, Deborah Goldsmith Apple Inc. On Jan 10, 2011, at 10:12 AM, Steve Mykytyn wrote: > UIDatePicker (4.2.1) shows differing dates for the modes > > UIDatePickerDate (correct), and > > UIDatePickerDateAndTime (incorr

Re: case-insensitive but case-ordered sort

2010-07-20 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
levels compare equal *for the entire string*. See: http://userguide.icu-project.org/collation http://userguide.icu-project.org/collation/concepts Deborah Goldsmith Apple, Inc. On Jul 20, 2010, at 1:48 PM, Keary Suska wrote: > On Jul 20, 2010, at 11:39 AM, Roland King wrote: > >&g

Re: NSLocale and currency symbols

2010-03-04 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
Mac OS X doesn’t use the concept of “before” or “after”. Instead, there’s a currency formatting pattern which has the currency symbol metacharacter embedded in it. Please read the documentation on NSNumberFormatter for more information. Deborah Goldsmith Apple Inc. golds...@apple.com On Mar 4

Re: Julian date

2010-01-07 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
The underlying ICU calendar implementation has an API ucal_setGregorianChange, but this function is not available at the Cocoa level. Please file a bug if you’d like to access this through NSCalendar. Deborah On Jan 7, 2010, at 10:22 AM, Kyle Sluder wrote: > On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:44 AM, Ale

Re: How to change the case of letters

2009-05-05 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
Note that this will do a non-language-sensitive case conversion. If you care about handling languages like Turkish correctly, use CFStringUppercase. Deborah Goldsmith Apple Inc. golds...@apple.com On May 4, 2009, at 10:13 PM, Graham Cox wrote: On 05/05/2009, at 3:04 PM, rethish wrote

Re: parsing a string into words

2009-05-04 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
ot;Separated by whitespace" will not gives you words in Japanese, as Japanese doesn't use whitespace to separate words, either (neither does Chinese). You need to do morphological analysis in Japanese to determine what the words are. Deborah Goldsmith Apple Inc. golds...@apple.com On

Re: localizedCompare: with Thai

2009-04-15 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
e" if you look at that in Safari.) Deborah Goldsmith Apple Inc. golds...@apple.com On Apr 15, 2009, at 6:48 PM, Gerriet M. Denkmann wrote: On 16 Apr 2009, at 06:01, Deborah Goldsmith wrote: Yes, it's correct behavior. localizedCompare: compares logically, not visually. If you did a

Re: Daylight Savings Time

2009-04-15 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
There is also [NSTimeZone nextDaylightSavingTimeTransition] and [NSTimeZone nextDaylightSavingTimeTransitionAfterDate:], both available in 10.5 or later. Deborah Goldsmith Apple Inc. golds...@apple.com On Apr 15, 2009, at 2:41 PM, Gregory Weston wrote: Greg Robertson wrote: Basically I

Re: localizedCompare: with Thai

2009-04-15 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
Yes, it's correct behavior. localizedCompare: compares logically, not visually. If you did a diacritic-insensitive compare, they would compare equal, because MAI EK is primary ignorable. Deborah Goldsmith Apple Inc. golds...@apple.com On Apr 15, 2009, at 12:13 AM, Gerriet M. Den

Re: Thai Dictionary

2009-02-02 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
Does it work if you set your collation order to Thai in the International Pref pane (Languages tab)? If so, you need to use compare:options:locale: and always pass the "th" locale. Deborah Goldsmith Apple Inc. golds...@apple.com On Jan 30, 2009, at 4:58 AM, Gerriet M. Denkmann

Re: GetApplicationTextEncoding & "carbon free"

2008-11-21 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
And if you really, really need to access legacy Mac OS 9 text files, the correct encoding to use is CFStringGetSystemEncoding(), which is in CoreFoundation. GetApplicationTextEncoding(): legacy encoding (if any) corresponding to the language *the app is running in*. As Aki says, it's for

Re: Convert unicode string into ascii

2008-08-28 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
You can use CFStringTransform to process Unicode in several ways that might be useful for what you're doing. Or you can just go through it character by character. To see what CFStringTransform can do, see: http://icu-project.org/userguide/Transform.html I should point out that you can only w

Re: NSCalendarDate has subsecond precision

2008-08-15 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
NSCalendarDate is deprecated, so any bugs reported against it are unlikely to be fixed. Use NSCalendar instead. Deborah Goldsmith Apple Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Aug 15, 2008, at 2:28 PM, Jim Thomason wrote: Wow. I just spent about an hour and a half debugging this, since it's r

Re: How to get array of characters from NSString

2008-08-12 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
On Aug 12, 2008, at 8:41 AM, Kyle Sluder wrote: On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 9:30 PM, Deborah Goldsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anyone who is considering writing code that looks through the contents of an NSString (as opposed to just treating the whole string as a unit) needs to lea

Re: Monospaced Simulated Braille

2008-08-11 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
The Braille characters should probably be monospace. Please write a bug. Deborah Goldsmith Apple Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Aug 8, 2008, at 2:11 PM, James Jennings wrote: I want to display and edit simulated Braille. OS X has had Braille fonts since Tiger, so all I need to do is pass the

Re: How to get array of characters from NSString

2008-08-11 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
ng". Since characterAtIndex: returns a 16-bit code unit, you want %C, not %c. Anyone who is considering writing code that looks through the contents of an NSString (as opposed to just treating the whole string as a unit) needs to learn the basics of processing Unicode. http://www.

Re: [NSDate +dateWithNaturalLanguageString] question

2008-07-13 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
parse it. If you would like to see a different kind of API added, please file an enhancement request. Deborah Goldsmith Apple Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or

Re: [NSDate +dateWithNaturalLanguageString] question

2008-07-13 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
On Jul 13, 2008, at 8:34 PM, Nick Zitzmann wrote: What's the NSCalendar identifier for the Thai calendar? I don't see one documented in the NSLocale docs. NSBuddhistCalendar Deborah Goldsmith Apple Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Cocoa-d

Re: [NSDate +dateWithNaturalLanguageString] question

2008-07-13 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
f the Japanese calendar match the Gregorian calendar, the years and eras do not, and you need NSCalendar to handle that. Mac OS X 10.5 supports Gregorian, Japanese, Thai, Hebrew, and Islamic (two kinds) calendars. Deborah Goldsmith Apple Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Jul 13, 20 Heisei, at 13:41,

Re: NSDateFormatter question

2008-07-03 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
Correct. We're aware there is a need for what you want to do, but there is currently no way to do it. Please file an enhancement request. Deborah Goldsmith Apple Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Jul 3, 2008, at 1:13 PM, Chuck Soper wrote: Hello, Currently, I'm creating a NSDat

Re: NSNumberFormatterPercentStyle flakiness

2008-06-19 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
Please write a bug. Thanks, Deborah Goldsmith Apple Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Jun 15, 2008, at 5:22 AM, Aron Nopanen wrote: Hi, I've noticed some odd behavior with NSNumberFormatterPercentStyle in NSNumberFormatter (on Leopard 10.5.3). Attempting to translate an invalid string

Re: changing locale

2008-06-10 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
Not a supported way, no. We don't encourage applications to change system-wide settings. Deborah Goldsmith Apple Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Jun 10, 2008, at 8:05 AM, Alexander Cohen wrote: Is there a way to change the locale from cocoa as if i was to go into System Preferences and c

Re: Keyboard Layout

2008-05-27 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
This has nothing to do with which keyboard layout is selected. The direction indicator appears when you have right-to-left text. Also, which application are you seeing this direction indicator in? Mac OS X uses a split cursor to indicate a direction boundary. Deborah Goldsmith Apple Inc

Re: How is "Apple + Ctrl + D" implemented?

2008-05-07 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
bed here, CFStringTokenizer is probably best as it has the sophistication necessary to break text in Chinese and Japanese into words. Deborah Goldsmith Apple Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin r

Re: What is this invisible character?

2008-03-24 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
encoding is "external". Deborah Goldsmith Apple Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mar 19, 2008, at 11:34 AM, Jens Alfke wrote: On 19 Mar '08, at 10:04 AM, J. Todd Slack wrote: How do I write an ASCII 254 and ASCII 255 at the beginning of the NSString that I am putting in the file I

Re: NSLocale: " " vs. " "

2008-03-24 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
Sadly, not currently. Please file a bug. Deborah Goldsmith Apple Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mar 19, 2008, at 4:48 AM, Ruotger Skupin wrote: Hi, Is there a way to determine if a user (or an address depending on the country) prefers the zip code first or the city name first, e.g.: Apple 1

Re: Localise between different versions of English

2008-03-05 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
One could argue whether it's just a dialect, or a different script as well. OK, I think that's been enough of a waste of time for this topic... Deborah Goldsmith Apple Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mar 5, 2008, at 5:35 PM, Jonathan Dann wrote: On 5 Mar 2008, at 17:25, Christopher N

Re: How to get an NSString from a non-terminated array of unicode chars (length is known)

2008-03-04 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
ater). If it's UTF-16, use stringWithCharacters:length:. Deborah Goldsmith Apple Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mar 3, 2008, at 11:44 PM, Stuart Malin wrote: Yes - thanks - that works: NSMutableData *data = [NSMutableData dataWithBytes:(void *)s length:len]; //append a NULL unic

Re: localizable strings file with macro

2008-03-03 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
genstrings doesn't appear to read stdin, but you could run the C preprocessor on your source file, send it to a temp file, and then run genstrings on that. cpp -DSYS_DARWIN mysource.c >/tmp/foo.c genstrings /tmp/foo.c >outputfile Deborah Goldsmith Apple Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Finding a relative date

2008-02-26 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
y the ease of -dayOfYear! Use ordinalityOfUnit:inUnit:forDate: which is intended to replace the plethora of methods such as -dayOfYear. You should be able to pass "day" and "year" as the units. Deborah Goldsmith Apple Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Feb 26, 2008, at 5:45 AM,

Re: Finding a relative date

2008-02-25 Thread Deborah Goldsmith
Please don't use NSCalendarDate, as it only supports the Gregorian calendar. Please use NSCalendar instead, unless you still need to run on 10.3.x. Deborah Goldsmith Apple Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Feb 25, 2008, at 11:39 AM, Nir Soffer wrote: On Feb 25, 2008, at 21:27, Randall Me