[java.text.NumberFormat] now supports lenient parsing of minus signs in negative patterns when [NumberFormat.isStrict()] returns `false`. This behavior is enabled by default and can be disabled with [NumberFormat.setStrict(true)]. When lenient, the concrete implementations, [DecimalFormat] and [CompactNumberFormat], use CLDR's [`parseLenient`](https://unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-general.html#Character_Parse_Lenient) data to recognize alternate minus signs. For example, text using the `MINUS SIGN (U+2212)` as the negative prefix is now correctly parsed:
```
jshell> var num = NumberFormat.getNumberInstance().parse("\u22123")
num ==> -3
```