Name: bb33257 Date: 08/26/97


NumberFormat (DecimalFormat, actually) has two problems with
its patterns:

1. There's no way to put a single quote in a formatted number.
DecimalFormat should use the DateFormat scheme, where '' indicates
a single quote.

2. There's no check for consistency between the positive and
negative patterns. "#,#00.00;-#.#" is an illegal pattern and
should throw an exception.
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