From 30b430f9298a0cede50c324be2cddf963efa3380 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Markus Scherer <markus.icu@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 23:59:28 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] ICU-9249 deprecate PluralFormat.setLocale(locale)

X-SVN-Rev: 31743
---
 .../main/classes/core/src/com/ibm/icu/text/PluralFormat.java  | 4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/icu4j/main/classes/core/src/com/ibm/icu/text/PluralFormat.java b/icu4j/main/classes/core/src/com/ibm/icu/text/PluralFormat.java
index e225720f704..46f22ed6daa 100644
--- a/icu4j/main/classes/core/src/com/ibm/icu/text/PluralFormat.java
+++ b/icu4j/main/classes/core/src/com/ibm/icu/text/PluralFormat.java
@@ -627,7 +627,9 @@ public class PluralFormat extends UFormat {
      *     formatter. If <code>ulocale</code> is <code>null</code>, the
      *     default <code>FORMAT</code> locale will be used.
      * @see Category#FORMAT
-     * @stable ICU 3.8
+     * @deprecated ICU 50 This method clears the pattern and might create
+     *             a different kind of PluralRules instance;
+     *             use one of the constructors to create a new instance instead.
      */
     public void setLocale(ULocale ulocale) {
         if (ulocale == null) {
-- 
2.40.0