[cp-patches] Fix localization in java.text.SimpleDateFormat

[Andrew John Hughes]

I'm committing the attached patch to fix the following localization
issues in java.text.SimpleDateFormat:

   * The compiled pattern is now always non-localized and thus
     standard pattern characters are compared rather than localized
     ones.  This was causing an IllegalArgumentException with
     locales with different pattern characters (e.g. GERMAN, de_DE,
     where 'day' is represented by 't' for 'tag'  The appearance of
     'd' in the pattern caused problems, and the constructors are
     supposed to take non-localized patterns (only input for localized
     is via applyLocalizedPattern()).
   * The exception for an illegal pattern is now thrown on construction
     rather than on formatting, as specified in the current specification.
     The compiled field class no longer uses dumb -1 codes as a result.
   * Documentation was added for clarity, as well as a more expansive
     toString() method (unspecified, but v. useful for debugging and
     the class did have one before)
   
Changelog:

2005-02-02  Andrew John Hughes  <address@hidden>

        * java/text/SimpleDateFormat.java
        Lots of documentation updates.
        (readObject(java.io.ObjectInputStream)): Wraps
        IllegalArgumentException as specified.
        (compileFormat(String)): Uses standardChars
        rather than the local pattern characters.
        Throws IllegalArgumentException rather than
        storing a -1 field.
        (toString()): Extended to include all variables
        in a better format.
        (translateLocalizedPattern(String, String, String)):
        Renamed to better define the use of this method.

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