On Tue, 5 Aug 2025 22:35:58 GMT, Naoto Sato <na...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> Enabling lenient minus sign matching when parsing numbers. In some locales,
>> e.g. Finnish, the default minus sign is the Unicode "Minus Sign" (U+2212),
>> which is not the "Hyphen Minus" (U+002D) that users type in from keyboard.
>> Thus the parsing of user input numbers may fail. This change utilizes CLDR's
>> `parseLenient` element for minus signs and loosely matches them with the
>> hyphen-minus so that user input numbers can parse. As this is a behavioral
>> change, a corresponding CSR has been drafted.
>
> Naoto Sato has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional
> commit since the last revision:
>
> Refining docs
src/java.base/share/classes/java/text/DecimalFormat.java line 310:
> 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
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.)
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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26580#discussion_r2258014200
