"Renaming" means the icu namespace is suffixed with the version number,
atm icu_55. Using "renaming" allows to use two different versions of ICU,
thus easing upgrades. For instance haikuwebkit uses a current version of ICU,
while the system uses a newer one after an upgrade.
* Replace all uses of the icu namespace in our public headers, with a macro
defaulting to icu. As the namespace is only used for private fields pointers,
there should be no impact.
* Locale kit *.cpp have to import the macro from <unicode/uversion.h> *before*
including any locale headers. Ditto for a Time preferences cpp file. This way,
the correct current icu namespace is referenced.
* Fixes bug #12057.
The language and formatting conventions can now only be set when
creating the objects. This removed the needs for locking them when
formatting to avoid some other thread changing the format while it's
being used.
Adjust tests and DeskBar TimeView to the API changes.
* ... and adjust all callers
* Remove NumberFormatImpl: we rely on ICU to provide this and it can be
fully wrapped into the C++ file. The class was a stub anyway.
* "Monetary" format is included in NumberFormat for now. There may be a
more generic solution to handle monetary and BTimeUnitFormat (and other
arbitrary units)
* Move relevant parts up into BFormat so other format classes can use
those
* Adjust BDurationFormat and BTimeUnitFormat for the changes
* Remove the "default" date format, it is better to keep only a default
locale and let applications create B*Formats from it as needed.
* Creating a B*Format without arguments to the constructor now
configures it for the default locale, which allows for easy use in
standard cases (formatting something with the current language and
format)
* Creating a B*Format is potentially an expansive operation, it is
advised to keep the instance around and reuse it whenever possible.
However it must be "refreshed" when the locale changes, for apps which
supports that, since it keeps a copy of the language and formatting
convention, rather than a pointer to the locale as it did before.
* Add setters for the language and formatting conventions
* Add shortcut getter and setter for the date format
* Use those in the locale roster to make the BDateFormat actually use
the system preferred language and format.
* Applications can also use this to extract specific information from
the system format (eg. set date format to "LLLL" to extract month
names), or define specific formats more easily (eg. for parsing and
generating e-mail headers or HTTP cookies).
* Use a reference rather than a pointer for the output string, removing
the need for NULL checks (which were missing, anyway)
* Adjust callers to that change
* Add new Format variant taking a BDate argument
* There is a little code duplication. This will be moved to BFormat once
the time and datetime formatting is also moved out of BLocale
* The way to create a BDateFormat from a BLocale is still open for
discussion. I'm undecided between making BDateFormat a member of
BLocale, or adding a BDateFormat(const BLocale&) constructor.
* Adjust all users of the API.
* refactored private/mutable stuff out of LocaleRoster into MutableLocaleRoster
* moved management of Locale/Time settings file and broadcasting of any changes
out of preflets and into MutableLocaleRoster
* added proper sorting to the listviews of the Locale preflet
* the Time preflet no longer overlaps long timezone names into the actual time
* several fixes with respect to leaking ICU objects, esp. in BCountry
* the locale roster no longer passes out references to its own BCountry object,
but uses copies, instead - this makes locking superfluous, as the clients'
BCountry objects can no longer be changed by the setting a new default
country in the locale roster
* removed pretty useless POSIX-style symbol fetching from BCountry - if we
need that at all, it should live in the dedicated formatter classes
* adjusted readonlybootprompt, dstcheck and Deskbar to the changed Locale API
* refactored existing Time-formatter into TimeUnitFormat and DurationFormat
(the latter of which is now used by AboutSystem)
* added stubs for Date, DateTime and Time formatters
* lots of coding style fixes throughout the Locale Kit and the Locale and Time
preflets
This will probably break most external apps making use of the Locale Kit - it
does break WebPositive.
git-svn-id: file:///srv/svn/repos/haiku/haiku/trunk@37831 a95241bf-73f2-0310-859d-f6bbb57e9c96
Akshay Agarwal