ICU-12895 Updated ICU4J readme for 59m1.

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<h1>International Components for Unicode for Java (ICU4J)</h1>
<h2>Read Me for ICU4J Release Candidate</h2>
(Last Update: 2016-Oct-14)
<h2>Read Me for ICU4J 59m1</h2>
(Last Update: 2016-Jan-30)
<hr size="2" width="100%">
<p>
<b>Note:</b> This is major release of ICU4J. It contains bug fixes and adds implementations
of inherited API and introduces new API or functionality.
<!-- <b>Note:</b> This is a development release of ICU4J 58.
<!-- <b>Note:</b> This is major release of ICU4J. It contains bug fixes and adds implementations
of inherited API and introduces new API or functionality. -->
<b>Note:</b> This is a development release of ICU4J 59.
The contents of this document may not reflect the recent changes done
for ICU 58 development. This milestone is intended for those wishing
to get an early look at ICU4J 58 new features and API changes. It is not
recommended for production use. -->
<!-- <b>Note:</b> This is a release candidate of ICU4J 58.
for ICU 59 development. This milestone is intended for those wishing
to get an early look at ICU4J 59 new features and API changes. It is not
recommended for production use.
<!-- <b>Note:</b> This is a release candidate of ICU4J 59.
The contents of this document may not reflect the recent changes done
for ICU 58 development. This release candidate is intended for those
wishing to verify ICU 58 integration before final release. It is not
for ICU 59 development. This release candidate is intended for those
wishing to verify ICU 59 integration before final release. It is not
recommended for production use. -->
</p>
<p>For the most recent release, see the <a
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<h2 class="doc"><a name="changes"></a>Changes In This Release</h2>
<p>See the <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/icusite/download/58">ICU 58 download page</a>
<p>See the <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/icusite/download/59">ICU 59 download page[TBD]</a>
about new features in this release.
The list of API changes since the previous ICU4J release is available
<a href="http://source.icu-project.org/repos/icu/icu4j/tags/release-58-1/APIChangeReport.html">here</a>.</p>
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<h3 class="doc">ICU development and license change</h3>
The Unicode® Consortium hosts development of the ICU libraries starting from this relase.
The ICU Project Management Committee is now a Unicode Technical Committee, the ICU-TC.
ICU will continue to be released under a <a href="http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html#License">similar open source license</a>.
For more details, see the <a href="http://blog.unicode.org/2016/05/icu-joins-unicode-consortium.html">Unicode announcement</a>.
<a href="http://source.icu-project.org/repos/icu/tags/milestone-59-0-1/icu4j/APIChangeReport.html">here</a>.</p>
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<h2 class="doc"><a name="license"></a>License Information</h2>
<p>
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</p>
<h2 class="doc"><a name="PlatformDependencies"></a>Platform Dependencies</h2>
<p>
ICU4J 58 depends on J2SE 6 functionality. Therefore, ICU4J only runs on
ICU4J 59 depends on J2SE 6 functionality. Therefore, ICU4J only runs on
JRE version 6 or later.
<h2 class="doc"><a name="download"></a>How to Download ICU4J</h2>
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organization
of the data in ICU4J.</p>
<ul>
<li>The primary <b>locale data</b> is under the directory <tt>icudt58b</tt>,
<li>The primary <b>locale data</b> is under the directory <tt>icudt59b</tt>,
as a set of <tt>".res"</tt> files whose names are the locale identifiers.
Locale naming is documented the <code>com.ibm.icu.util.ULocale</code>
class, and the use of these names in searching for resources is documented
in <code>com.ibm.icu.util.UResourceBundle</code>.</li>
<li>The <b>break iterator data</b> is under the directory <tt>icudt58b/brkitr</tt>,
<li>The <b>break iterator data</b> is under the directory <tt>icudt59b/brkitr</tt>,
as a set of <tt>".res"</tt>, <tt>".brk"</tt> and <tt>".dict"</tt> files.</li>
<li>The <b>collation data</b> is under the directory <tt>icudt58b/coll</tt>,
<li>The <b>collation data</b> is under the directory <tt>icudt59b/coll</tt>,
as a set of <tt>".res"</tt> files.</li>
<li>The <b>currency display name data</b> is under the directory <tt>icudt58b/curr</tt>,
<li>The <b>currency display name data</b> is under the directory <tt>icudt59b/curr</tt>,
as a set of <tt>".res"</tt> files.</li>
<li>The <b>language display name data</b> is under the directory <tt>icudt58b/lang</tt>,
<li>The <b>language display name data</b> is under the directory <tt>icudt59b/lang</tt>,
as a set of <tt>".res"</tt> files.</li>
<li>The <b>rule-based number format data</b> is under the directory
<tt>icudt58b/rbnf</tt>, as a set of <tt>".res"</tt> files.
<tt>icudt59b/rbnf</tt>, as a set of <tt>".res"</tt> files.
<li>The <b>region display name data</b> is under the directory <tt>icudt58b/region</tt>,
<li>The <b>region display name data</b> is under the directory <tt>icudt59b/region</tt>,
as a set of <tt>".res"</tt> files.</li>
<li>The <b>rule-based transliterator data</b> is under the directory
<tt>icudt58b/translit</tt>, as a set of <tt>".res"</tt> files.</li>
<tt>icudt59b/translit</tt>, as a set of <tt>".res"</tt> files.</li>
<li>The <b>measurement unit data</b> is under the directory <tt>icudt58b/unit</tt>,
<li>The <b>measurement unit data</b> is under the directory <tt>icudt59b/unit</tt>,
as a set of <tt>".res"</tt> files.</li>
<li>The <b>time zone display name data</b> is under the directory
<tt>icudt58b/zone</tt>, as a set of <tt>".res"</tt> files.</li>
<tt>icudt59b/zone</tt>, as a set of <tt>".res"</tt> files.</li>
<li>The <b>character property data</b> and default <b>unicode collation algorithm
(UCA) data</b> is found under the directory <tt>icudt58b</tt>, as a set of
(UCA) data</b> is found under the directory <tt>icudt59b</tt>, as a set of
<tt>".icu"</tt> files. </li>
<li>The <b>normalization data</b> is found under the directory <tt>icudt58b</tt>,
<li>The <b>normalization data</b> is found under the directory <tt>icudt59b</tt>,
as a set of <tt>".nrm"</tt> files. </li>
<li>The <b>character set converter data</b> is under the directory
<tt>icudt58b</tt>, as a set of <tt>".cnv"</tt> files. These files are
<tt>icudt59b</tt>, as a set of <tt>".cnv"</tt> files. These files are
currently included only in icu-charset.jar.</li>
<li>The <b>time zone rule data</b> is under the directory
<tt>icudt58b</tt>, as <tt>zoneinfo64.res</tt>.</li>
<tt>icudt59b</tt>, as <tt>zoneinfo64.res</tt>.</li>
<li>The <b>holiday data</b> is under the directory <tt>icudt58b</tt>,
<li>The <b>holiday data</b> is under the directory <tt>icudt59b</tt>,
as a set of <tt>".class"</tt> files, named <tt>"HolidayBundle_"</tt>
followed by the locale ID.</li>
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<h5> Generating Data from CLDR </h5>
<I> Note: This procedure assumes that all 3 sources are present</I>
<ol>
<li>Checkout or download CLDR version 'release-30-0-1'</li>
<li>Checkout ICU4C with tag 'release-58-1'</li>
<li>Checkout ICU4J with tag 'release-58-1'</li>
<li>Checkout or download CLDR version 'release-31'</li>
<li>Checkout ICU4C with tag 'release-59-1'</li>
<li>Checkout ICU4J with tag 'release-59-1'</li>
<li>cd to <I>$icu4c_root</I>/source/data directory</li>
<li>Follow the instructions in <I>$icu4c_root</I>/source/data/cldr-icu-readme.txt</li>
<li>Rebuild ICU4C with the newly generated data.</li>