From ce8e689663530c3e0b0c7cb945ce98399ce86282 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: George Rhoten <grhoten@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 15:58:20 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] ICU-1839 Use const UnicodeString & and not just
 UnicodeString.

X-SVN-Rev: 11547
---
 icu4c/source/i18n/decimfmt.cpp       | 2 +-
 icu4c/source/i18n/unicode/decimfmt.h | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/icu4c/source/i18n/decimfmt.cpp b/icu4c/source/i18n/decimfmt.cpp
index 4d972229226..db23d0c156e 100644
--- a/icu4c/source/i18n/decimfmt.cpp
+++ b/icu4c/source/i18n/decimfmt.cpp
@@ -1730,7 +1730,7 @@ UnicodeString DecimalFormat::getPadCharacterString() {
  * @see #getPadPosition
  * @see #setPadPosition
  */
-void DecimalFormat::setPadCharacter(UnicodeString padChar) {
+void DecimalFormat::setPadCharacter(const UnicodeString &padChar) {
     if (padChar.length() > 0) {
         fPad = padChar;
     }
diff --git a/icu4c/source/i18n/unicode/decimfmt.h b/icu4c/source/i18n/unicode/decimfmt.h
index f66332f8364..de87a909237 100644
--- a/icu4c/source/i18n/unicode/decimfmt.h
+++ b/icu4c/source/i18n/unicode/decimfmt.h
@@ -694,7 +694,7 @@ public:
      * @see #setPadPosition
      * @stable ICU 2.0
      */
-    virtual void setPadCharacter(UnicodeString padChar);
+    virtual void setPadCharacter(const UnicodeString &padChar);
 
     /**
      * Get the position at which padding will take place.  This is the location