+ /**
+ * Format an int64 number. Subclasses must implement
+ * this method.
+ *
+ * @param number The value to be formatted.
+ * @param appendTo Output parameter to receive result.
+ * Result is appended to existing contents.
+ * @param posIter On return, can be used to iterate over positions
+ * of fields generated by this format call.
+ * Can be NULL.
+ * @param status Output param filled with success/failure status.
+ * @return Reference to 'appendTo' parameter.
+ * @stable 4.4
+ */
+ virtual UnicodeString& format(int64_t number,
+ UnicodeString& appendTo,
+ FieldPositionIterator* posIter,
+ UErrorCode& status) const;
+
+ /**
+ * Format a decimal number. Subclasses must implement
+ * this method. The syntax of the unformatted number is a "numeric string"
+ * as defined in the Decimal Arithmetic Specification, available at
+ * http://speleotrove.com/decimal
+ *
+ * @param number The unformatted number, as a string, to be formatted.
+ * @param appendTo Output parameter to receive result.
+ * Result is appended to existing contents.
+ * @param posIter On return, can be used to iterate over positions
+ * of fields generated by this format call.
+ * Can be NULL.
+ * @param status Output param filled with success/failure status.
+ * @return Reference to 'appendTo' parameter.
+ * @stable 4.4
+ */
+ virtual UnicodeString& format(const StringPiece &number,
+ UnicodeString& appendTo,
+ FieldPositionIterator* posIter,
+ UErrorCode& status) const;
+public:
+ /**
+ * Format a decimal number.
+ * The number is a DigitList wrapper onto a floating point decimal number.
+ * The default implementation in NumberFormat converts the decimal number
+ * to a double and formats that. Subclasses of NumberFormat that want
+ * to specifically handle big decimal numbers must override this method.
+ * class DecimalFormat does so.
+ *
+ * @param number The number, a DigitList format Decimal Floating Point.
+ * @param appendTo Output parameter to receive result.
+ * Result is appended to existing contents.
+ * @param posIter On return, can be used to iterate over positions
+ * of fields generated by this format call.
+ * @param status Output param filled with success/failure status.
+ * @return Reference to 'appendTo' parameter.
+ * @internal
+ */
+ virtual UnicodeString& format(const DigitList &number,
+ UnicodeString& appendTo,
+ FieldPositionIterator* posIter,
+ UErrorCode& status) const;
+
+ /**
+ * Format a decimal number.
+ * The number is a DigitList wrapper onto a floating point decimal number.
+ * The default implementation in NumberFormat converts the decimal number
+ * to a double and formats that. Subclasses of NumberFormat that want
+ * to specifically handle big decimal numbers must override this method.
+ * class DecimalFormat does so.
+ *
+ * @param number The number, a DigitList format Decimal Floating Point.
+ * @param appendTo Output parameter to receive result.
+ * Result is appended to existing contents.
+ * @param pos On input: an alignment field, if desired.
+ * On output: the offsets of the alignment field.
+ * @param status Output param filled with success/failure status.
+ * @return Reference to 'appendTo' parameter.
+ * @internal
+ */
+ virtual UnicodeString& format(const DigitList &number,
+ UnicodeString& appendTo,
+ FieldPosition& pos,
+ UErrorCode& status) const;
+
+public:
+