src/share/classes/java/text/spi/DecimalFormatSymbolsProvider.java

rev 5696 : 6336885: RFE: Locale Data Deployment Enhancements
4609153: Provide locale data for Indic locales
5104387: Support for gl_ES locale (galician language)
6337471: desktop/system locale preferences support
7056139: (cal) SPI support for locale-dependent Calendar parameters
7058206: Provide CalendarData SPI for week params and display field value names
7073852: Support multiple scripts for digits and decimal symbols per locale
7079560: [Fmt-Da] Context dependent month names support in SimpleDateFormat
7171324: getAvailableLocales() of locale sensitive services should return the actual availability of locales
7151414: (cal) Support calendar type identification
7168528: LocaleServiceProvider needs to be aware of Locale extensions
7171372: (cal) locale's default Calendar should be created if unknown calendar is specified
Summary: JEP 127: Improve Locale Data Packaging and Adopt Unicode CLDR Data (part 1 w/o packaging changes. by Naoto Sato and Masayoshi Okutsu)

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 /*
- * Copyright (c) 2005, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * Copyright (c) 2005, 2012, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
  * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
  *
  * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
  * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
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@@ -32,11 +32,21 @@
 /**
  * An abstract class for service providers that
  * provide instances of the
  * {@link java.text.DecimalFormatSymbols DecimalFormatSymbols} class.
  *
+ * <p>The requested {@code Locale} may contain an <a
+ * href="../../util/Locale.html#def_locale_extension"> extension</a> for
+ * specifying the desired numbering system. For example, {@code "ar-u-nu-arab"}
+ * (in the BCP 47 language tag form) specifies Arabic with the Arabic-Indic
+ * digits and symbols, while {@code "ar-u-nu-latn"} specifies Arabic with the
+ * Latin digits and symbols. Refer to the <em>Unicode Locale Data Markup
+ * Language (LDML)</em> specification for numbering systems.
+ *
  * @since        1.6
+ * @see Locale#forLanguageTag(String)
+ * @see Locale#getExtension(char)
  */
 public abstract class DecimalFormatSymbolsProvider extends LocaleServiceProvider {
 
     /**
      * Sole constructor.  (For invocation by subclass constructors, typically