From a55516c58f409fddd995c46e7ef22b30eb80de59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Yoshito Umaoka <y.umaoka@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2016 18:19:11 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] ICU-12047 Added a note in
 SimpleDateFormat::toLocalizedPattern() API doc in ICU4C.

X-SVN-Rev: 38976
---
 icu4c/source/i18n/unicode/smpdtfmt.h | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/icu4c/source/i18n/unicode/smpdtfmt.h b/icu4c/source/i18n/unicode/smpdtfmt.h
index 1bf8770a2a..39547bd70a 100644
--- a/icu4c/source/i18n/unicode/smpdtfmt.h
+++ b/icu4c/source/i18n/unicode/smpdtfmt.h
@@ -1001,6 +1001,12 @@ public:
      * (Presumably, letters that would be more mnemonic in that locale's
      * language.)  This function would produce a pattern using those
      * letters.
+     * <p>
+     * <b>Note:</b> This implementation depends on DateFormatSymbols::getLocalPatternChars()
+     * to get localized format pattern characters. ICU does not include
+     * localized pattern character data, therefore, unless user sets localized
+     * pattern characters manually, this method returns a same result with
+     * toPattern().
      *
      * @param result    Receives the localized pattern.
      * @param status    Output param set to success/failure code on