Well, you already tagged the question correctly, so I assume you know thing or two about ICU. With ICU you have two choices for proper handling of plural forms: PluralRules, which gives you the rules for given Locale PluralFormat, which uses aforementioned rules to allow formatting Which one to use? Personally, I prefer to use … Read more
You can put them inside single quotes e.g. ‘{‘return {2};’}’ See here for more details.
Put simply, the main difference is in format string: MessageFormat.format() format string accepts argument positions (eg. {0}, {1}). Example: “This is year {0}!” The developer doesn’t have to worry about argument types, because they are, most often, recognized and formated according to current Locale. String.format() format string accepts argument type specifiers (eg. %d for numbers, … Read more
MessageFormat.format(“{0,number,#}”, foo);