[loc-en-dev] MessageFormat question

[Mark Davis ☕]

Could well be...

Mark
*— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —*


On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 23:44, Masayoshi Okutsu
<masayoshi.okutsu at oracle.com>wrote:

> **
> I understand the intention. But looks like both spec and implementation are
> broken...
>
> Masayoshi
>
>
> On 8/9/2011 11:00 PM, Mark Davis ☕ wrote:
>
> I don't remember what the implementation ended up as, but we carried the
> original intent over from the Taligent code, which was to allow alignment to
> different fields as I described.
>
>  Mark
> *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —*
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 22:05, Masayoshi Okutsu <
> masayoshi.okutsu at oracle.com> wrote:
>
>>  Thanks. But the implementation seems to be different. (I'm talking about
>> JDK, not ICU4J.) MessageFormat.format takes only
>> MessageFormat.Field.ARGUMENT. Specifying
>> NumberFormat.Field.DECIMAL_SEPARATOR has no effect.
>>
>> FieldPosition had been added to JDK in 1.1 before Format.Field support was
>> added in 1.4 for Swing. I wondered what the original intention of the spec
>> was, especially with a FieldPosition constructed with FieldPosition(int).
>> The other two constructors were added in 1.4.
>>
>> Masayoshi
>>
>>
>> On 8/9/2011 9:50 AM, Mark Davis ☕ wrote:
>>
>> It is for lining up columns.
>>
>>  For example, suppose you have a column in a spreadsheet with formatted
>> numbers. If you pass in
>> http://download.oracle.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/text/NumberFormat.Field.html#DECIMAL_SEPARATORyou can find out the start/end position of the decimal separator, no matter
>> what language the numbers are formatted in, and align them. In practice,
>> that one field is probably the only really useful one.
>>
>>  Mark
>> *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —*
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 01:40, Masayoshi Okutsu <
>> masayoshi.okutsu at oracle.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I wonder if someone on this mailing list has some idea on my question
>>> below.
>>>
>>> MessageFormat.format takes a FieldPosition defined as follows:
>>>
>>> pos - On input: an alignment field, if desired. On output: the offsets of
>>> the alignment field.
>>>
>>> What's the intention of this spec? What's the alignment field?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>  Masayoshi
>>>
>>>
>>
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