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Class DecimalFormatSymbolsProvider

public abstract class DecimalFormatSymbolsProvider
extends LocaleServiceProvider

An abstract class for service providers that provide instances of the DecimalFormatSymbols class.

The requested Locale may contain an extension for specifying the desired numbering system. For example, "ar-u-nu-arab" (in the BCP 47 language tag form) specifies Arabic with the Arabic-Indic digits and symbols, while "ar-u-nu-latn" specifies Arabic with the Latin digits and symbols. Refer to the Unicode Locale Data Markup Language (LDML) specification for numbering systems.

Since:
1.6
See Also:
Locale.forLanguageTag(String), Locale.getExtension(char)

Constructors

DecimalFormatSymbolsProvider

protected DecimalFormatSymbolsProvider()

Sole constructor. (For invocation by subclass constructors, typically implicit.)

Methods

getInstance

public abstract DecimalFormatSymbols getInstance(Locale locale)

Returns a new DecimalFormatSymbols instance for the specified locale.

Parameters:
locale - the desired locale
Returns:
a DecimalFormatSymbols instance.
Throws:
NullPointerException - if locale is null
IllegalArgumentException - if locale isn't one of the locales returned from getAvailableLocales().
See Also:
DecimalFormatSymbols.getInstance(java.util.Locale)

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