Proposal: Deprecate redundant DecimalFormatSymbols enum

Alan S Liu <[email protected]> Fri, 26 Mar 2004 16:55:15 -0800

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Affects: ICU4C 3.0
Reply by: April 2, 2004
Bug ID: 3669

The C++ header for DecimalFormatSymbols defines an enum for selecting 
symbols,
 DecimalFormatSymbols::ENumberFormatSymbol.

The C header unum.h defines an enum for selecting symbols, which is 
perforce
 synchronized with the first enum, UNumberFormatSymbol.

Following our policy in similar situations in the past:

- Deprecate the C++ header enum.
- Deprecate any API using ENumberFormatSymbol.
- Add new @draft ICU 3.0 identical to existing API using 
ENumberFormatSymbol, but
  using UNumberFormatSymbol instead.

NOTE that deprecated API is still retained indefinitely. Its tag is 
changed from
 @stable to @deprecated.

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