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There are two kinds of format strings in Java: those acceptable to the
MessageFormat.format function, labelled as ‘java-format’,
and those acceptable to the String.format and
PrintStream.printf functions, labelled as ‘java-printf-format’.
Java format strings are described in the JDK documentation for class
java.text.MessageFormat,
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/MessageFormat.html.
See also the ICU documentation
http://icu-project.org/apiref/icu4j/com/ibm/icu/text/MessageFormat.html.
Java printf format strings are described in the JDK documentation
for class java.util.Formatter,
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/Formatter.html.