Re: Proposal: Add UErrorCode to ucurr_get* (JB#3399)

Are deprecated APIs kept forever? Otherwise, you'll break binary 
compatibility at some point, on systems where ICU ships as a shared 
library (such as Mac OS X).

Deborah Goldsmith
Manager, Fonts / Unicode liaison
Apple Computer, Inc.
[email protected]

On Mar 23, 2004, at 1:09 PM, Alan S Liu wrote:

> Affects: ICU4C 3.0
>
> Bug: #3399
> http://www.jtcsv.com/cgibin/icu-bugs?findid=3399
>
> NumberFormat:
> ------------
> The following @stable API:
>
>     void setCurrency(const UChar* theCurrency);
>
> will be marked @deprecated as of 3.0 in favor of the new API:
>
>     void setCurrency(const UChar* theCurrency, UErrorCode& ec);
>
> These will be inherited by DecimalFormat.
>
>
> ucurr.h:
> -------
> The following @draft API
>
>     int32_t ucurr_getDefaultFractionDigits(const UChar* currency);
>
>     double ucurr_getRoundingIncrement(const UChar* currency););
>
> will gain a UErrorCode* parameter and become:
>
>     int32_t ucurr_getDefaultFractionDigits(const UChar* currency,
>                                            UErrorCode* ec);
>
>     double ucurr_getRoundingIncrement(const UChar* currency);
>                                       UErrorCode* ec);
>
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