locale and decimalFormat confusion

I'm a bit confused about DecimalFormat. It seems that even if I specify a format string for DecimalFormat, the decimal separator in the string is ignored if I change the locale. What I want is to always format 1.0 as "1.00" regardless of whether the locale is en or fr.

Here is some short code:

Code:

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Locale L = Locale.getDefault();
System.out.println(L.getLanguage());
NumberFormat nf = new DecimalFormat("#,##0.00");
System.out.println(nf.format(1.0));

L = new Locale("fr");
Locale.setDefault(L);
System.out.println(L.getLanguage());
nf = new DecimalFormat("#,##0.00");
System.out.println(nf.format(1.0));

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the output is:

Code:

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en
1.00
fr
1,00

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What can I do to always get "1.00" even when the locale is fr?

Thanks!

Got it! In case anyone else is curious...

Code:

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DecimalFormatSymbols dfs = new DecimalFormatSymbols();
dfs.setDecimalSeparator('.');
dfs.setGroupingSeparator(',');
DecimalFormat df = new DecimalFormat("#,##0.00", dfs);
               
Locale L = Locale.getDefault();
System.out.println(L.getLanguage());
System.out.println(df.format(1.0));

L = new Locale("fr");
Locale.setDefault(L);
System.out.println(L.getLanguage());
System.out.println(df.format(1.0));

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the output:

Code:

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en
1.00
fr
1.00

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voila!

Nice work. Also, thanks for posting a clear, concise code example, and using CODE tags. I was about to suggest using NumberFormat instead, but your solution is better.

-Gary-