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International Components for Unicode for Java (ICU4J)
-Read Me for ICU4J Release Candidate
-(Last Update: 2016-Oct-14)
+Read Me for ICU4J 59m1
+(Last Update: 2016-Jan-30)
-Note: This is major release of ICU4J. It contains bug fixes and adds implementations
-of inherited API and introduces new API or functionality.
-
+Note: 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. -->
-
For the most recent release, see the
Changes In This Release
-See the ICU 58 download page
+
See the ICU 59 download page[TBD]
about new features in this release.
The list of API changes since the previous ICU4J release is available
-here.
-
-
-ICU development and license change
-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 similar open source license.
-For more details, see the Unicode announcement.
-
+here.
+
-
+
License Information
@@ -165,7 +158,7 @@ file included in this package.
Platform Dependencies
-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.
How to Download ICU4J
@@ -715,54 +708,54 @@ from release to release, so clients should not depend on the exact
organization
of the data in ICU4J.
- - The primary locale data is under the directory icudt58b,
+
- The primary locale data is under the directory icudt59b,
as a set of ".res" files whose names are the locale identifiers.
Locale naming is documented the
com.ibm.icu.util.ULocale
class, and the use of these names in searching for resources is documented
in com.ibm.icu.util.UResourceBundle.
- - The break iterator data is under the directory icudt58b/brkitr,
+
- The break iterator data is under the directory icudt59b/brkitr,
as a set of ".res", ".brk" and ".dict" files.
- - The collation data is under the directory icudt58b/coll,
+
- The collation data is under the directory icudt59b/coll,
as a set of ".res" files.
- - The currency display name data is under the directory icudt58b/curr,
+
- The currency display name data is under the directory icudt59b/curr,
as a set of ".res" files.
- - The language display name data is under the directory icudt58b/lang,
+
- The language display name data is under the directory icudt59b/lang,
as a set of ".res" files.
- The rule-based number format data is under the directory
- icudt58b/rbnf, as a set of ".res" files.
+ icudt59b/rbnf, as a set of ".res" files.
-
- The region display name data is under the directory icudt58b/region,
+
- The region display name data is under the directory icudt59b/region,
as a set of ".res" files.
- The rule-based transliterator data is under the directory
- icudt58b/translit, as a set of ".res" files.
+ icudt59b/translit, as a set of ".res" files.
- - The measurement unit data is under the directory icudt58b/unit,
+
- The measurement unit data is under the directory icudt59b/unit,
as a set of ".res" files.
- The time zone display name data is under the directory
- icudt58b/zone, as a set of ".res" files.
+ icudt59b/zone, as a set of ".res" files.
- The character property data and default unicode collation algorithm
- (UCA) data is found under the directory icudt58b, as a set of
+ (UCA) data is found under the directory icudt59b, as a set of
".icu" files.
- - The normalization data is found under the directory icudt58b,
+
- The normalization data is found under the directory icudt59b,
as a set of ".nrm" files.
- The character set converter data is under the directory
- icudt58b, as a set of ".cnv" files. These files are
+ icudt59b, as a set of ".cnv" files. These files are
currently included only in icu-charset.jar.
- The time zone rule data is under the directory
- icudt58b, as zoneinfo64.res.
+ icudt59b, as zoneinfo64.res.
- - The holiday data is under the directory icudt58b,
+
- The holiday data is under the directory icudt59b,
as a set of ".class" files, named "HolidayBundle_"
followed by the locale ID.
@@ -860,9 +853,9 @@ ICU4J data is built by ICU4C tools. Please see "icu4j-readme.txt" in $icu4c_r
Generating Data from CLDR
Note: This procedure assumes that all 3 sources are present
- - Checkout or download CLDR version 'release-30-0-1'
- - Checkout ICU4C with tag 'release-58-1'
- - Checkout ICU4J with tag 'release-58-1'
+ - Checkout or download CLDR version 'release-31'
+ - Checkout ICU4C with tag 'release-59-1'
+ - Checkout ICU4J with tag 'release-59-1'
- cd to $icu4c_root/source/data directory
- Follow the instructions in $icu4c_root/source/data/cldr-icu-readme.txt
- Rebuild ICU4C with the newly generated data.