Locale-Sensitive Objective-C Method

Foundation NSString

NSString rangeOfString:

Internationalization (I18n) Method Overview

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I18n Issues

Failure to specify locale or wrong search options (diacritical insensitive), may result in incorrect results for search in multilingual text.
Resolution: Specify the locale, don't let it be nil (default) or English.
NSRange r = [sText rangeOfString:searchText options:NSCaseInsensitiveSearch locale: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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