Hi, Please review this non trivial feature addition to NumberFormat API.
The existing NumberFormat API provides locale based support for formatting and parsing numbers which includes formatting decimal, percent, currency etc, but the support for formatting a number into a human readable or compact form is missing. This RFE adds that feature to format a decimal number in a compact format (e.g. 1000 -> 1K, 1000000 -> 1M in en_US locale) , which is useful for the environment where display space is limited, so that the formatted string can be displayed in that limited space. It is defined by LDML's specification for Compact Number Formats.
http://unicode.org/reports/tr35/tr35-numbers.html#Compact_Number_Formats RFE: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8177552 Webrev: http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~nishjain/8177552/webrevs/webrev.00/ CSR: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8188147 Request to please help review the the change. Regards, Nishit Jain
