<i18n dev> RFR: 8363972: Lenient parsing of minus sign pattern in DecimalFormat/CompactNumberFormat [v8]

[Naoto Sato]

On Wed, 6 Aug 2025 18:56:15 GMT, Justin Lu <jlu at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> Naoto Sato has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional commit since the last revision:
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>>   Refining docs
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> src/java.base/share/classes/java/text/DecimalFormat.java line 310:
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>> 308:  * minimal digits, and other characteristics are all the same as the positive
>> 309:  * pattern. That means that {@code "#,##0.0#;(#)"} produces precisely
>> 310:  * the same behavior as {@code "#,##0.0#;(#,##0.0#)"}. In
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> I think it is appropriate to have this here since it regards the negative sub pattern. However, we should either  link to this info or add additional info in the parse method. (Since the `parse` method covers behavior when strict/lenient.)

Since the leniency relates to not only `parse()` but also `is/setStrict()` methods, I wanted to consolidate the minus sign leniency in the class descrption. But yes describing it additionally in `parse()` would not hurt.

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26580#discussion_r2258215992