Internationalization Formatting
In most cases, the work that must be done to provide support for internationalization of a Java application is in the formatting of output data for a specific locale. Numbers, dates, and other text can all require formatting before they are displayed. Java provides a set of easy to use classes for formatting data based on standard locale formatting rules. The support for internationalization formatting is provided through the Format class and its specialized set of format classes.
Format Class
The java.text.Format class is an abstract base class that provides support for formatting dates, times, numbers, and other locale sensitive objects into strings and also for parsing strings back into the corresponding objects. ...
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