quick sanity check about formatting kmp resources....

# multiplatform

[Jeremie D]

quick sanity check about formatting kmp resources.... ai is telling me "The safest approach in KMP is to pre-format the double yourself and pass it as a String using `%1$s`:" and . %f with doubles can be unreliable across platforms in KMP, is that acccurate?

[ephemient]

https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-21235

[ephemient]

but there isn't a multiplatform to preformat them yourself either, https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-21644

[Jeremie D]

ai told me to preformat them as a string in kotlin like :

"%.2f".format(myfloat)

[ephemient]

good luck with that. it's only on JVM

[ephemient]

don't trust AI

[Jeremie D]

lol don't trust AI-> thats why i asked here before ripping all the instances out, so then what should i do?

[Didier Villevalois]

@Jeremie D please add a thumbs-up on the above issue! 😛

[Jeremie D]

yeah... this is annoying for converting existing apps to kmp but shouldnt affect fresh projects, is that why its not being addressed yet? seems not that big of a task but then again i have no idea what im talking about here so.

[Didier Villevalois]

I think the main difficulty, as for all multiplatform stuff, is to ensure the implementation is consistent on all platforms. Then again I don't really understand either why this has not been addressed before.

[Michael Paus]

What about https://github.com/sergeych/mp_stools