Re: ICU4 API proposal: sprintf/scanf-like support in formatters

Edward J. Batutis wrote:
> but this is better:
> 
> {0, pattern, %8u} ..
> {1, pattern, %-10s} ..
> 
> etc. The pattern fully defines the type, so this is
> all that is needed. 
> 
> That was really easy to implement. It's done and now
> my porting work is much easier. The MessageFormat code
> was designed to be extensible, and it was easy to
> extend. I have a perl script to convert the messages
> to this new format, and I'm just about finished.

Would you mind submitting an RFE Jitterbug with a description of this?

markus