ICU-11433 BRS: Update ICU4C readme for 55rc

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<html lang="en-US" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en-US">
<head>
<title>ReadMe for ICU 55.0.1 (55m1)</title>
<title>ReadMe for ICU 55.1 (55rc)</title>
<meta name="COPYRIGHT" content=
"Copyright (c) 1997-2015 IBM Corporation and others. All Rights Reserved." />
<meta name="KEYWORDS" content=
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<p class="only-draft"><b>Note:</b> This is a draft readme.</p>
<h1>
<span class="only-draft">DRAFT</span>
International Components for Unicode<br/>
<span class="only-draft">DRAFT</span>
International Components for Unicode<br/>
<span class="only-rc">Release Candidate</span>
<span class="only-milestone">(Milestone Release)</span>
<abbr title="International Components for Unicode">ICU</abbr> 55.1 (55rc) ReadMe
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<span class="only-rc">Release Candidate</span>
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<abbr title="International Components for Unicode">ICU</abbr> 55.0.1 (55M1) ReadMe
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<p class="note only-milestone">This is a development milestone release of ICU
This milestone is intended for those wishing to get an early look at new features and API changes.
It is not recommended for production use.</p>
This milestone is intended for those wishing to get an early look at new features and API changes.
It is not recommended for production use.</p>
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<p class="note only-rc">This is a release candidate version of ICU4C.
It is not recommended for production use.</p>
It is not recommended for production use.</p>
<p>Last updated: 2014-Dec-15<br />
Copyright &copy; 1997-2014 International Business Machines Corporation and
others. All Rights Reserved.</p>
<p>Last updated: 2015-Mar-13<br />
Copyright &copy; 1997-2015 International Business Machines Corporation and
others. All Rights Reserved.</p>
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<h3>Layout Engine: breaking API change</h3>
<p>The LayoutEngine (already deprecated) has had the function
<tt>LEFontInstance::getFontTable(LETag, size_t &length)</tt>
<tt>LEFontInstance::getFontTable(LETag, size_t &amp;length)</tt>
since ICU 52. Its implementation was optional. In ICU 55, this
version
of <tt>getFontTable</tt> has been made pure virtual, and the
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made secure. See <tt>LEFontInstance</tt> api docs for more detail.
</p>
<h3>Deprecations in PluralRules (plurrule.h)</h3>
<p>The following PluralRules methods never had an implementation
but were inadvertently marked @stable; they have now been
deprecated. [#<a href="http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/ticket/10759">10759</a>]</p>
<ul>
<li><tt>double icu::PluralRules::getUniqueKeywordValue(const UnicodeString&amp;)</tt></li>
<li><tt>int32_t icu::PluralRules::getAllKeywordValues(const UnicodeString&amp;, double*, int32_t, UErrorCode&amp;)</tt></li>
</ul>
<h3>Deprecate uidna.h functions for IDNA2003 support</h3>
<p>The IDNA2003 API has been deprecated; use the API for IDNA2008 / UTS #46 instead via
uidna_openUTS46() or class IDNA [#<a href="http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/ticket/v">8477</a>].
This applies to the following:</p>
<ul>
<li><tt>enum value UIDNA_ALLOW_UNASSIGNED</tt></li>
<li><tt>uidna_IDNToASCII</tt></li>
<li><tt>uidna_IDNToUnicode</tt></li>
<li><tt>uidna_compare</tt></li>
<li><tt>uidna_toASCII</tt></li>
<li><tt>uidna_toUnicode</tt></li>
</ul>
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<h3>Deprecation: Layout Engine</h3>
<h3>Deprecation (in ICU 54): Layout Engine</h3>
<p>The LayoutEngine is now deprecated. Please
see <a href='http://userguide.icu-project.org/layoutengine'>the
User's Guide</a> for more details and migration recommendations.
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instead of ICU as the layout engine. See <a href="http://userguide.icu-project.org/layoutengine">
the users' guide</a> for more information about how to build.
</p>
<h3>Deprecation: Collation Short Strings</h3>
<h3>Deprecation (in ICU 54): Collation Short Strings</h3>
<p>The collation short naming scheme and its API functions are deprecated.
Use ucol_open() with language tag collation keywords instead (see <a href="http://userguide.icu-project.org/collation/api">Collation API Details</a>). For example, <code>ucol_open("de-u-co-phonebk-ka-shifted", &amp;errorCode)</code>
for German Phonebook order with "ignore punctuation" mode.</p>
<h3>Deprecation: UCOL_TAILORINGS_VERSION</h3>
<h3>Deprecation (in ICU 54): UCOL_TAILORINGS_VERSION</h3>
<p>This was originally intended to be the version of collation tailorings,
but that information is actually in the tailorings data and this
constant has always been (and now will continue to be) 1.</p>
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<h3>Deprecation (in ICU 53): TimeUnitFormat</h3>
<p>The TimeUnitFormat and its methods were actually deprecated in ICU 53 and the
class as a whole was tagged as deprecated in that release, but the status tags for
the individual methods did not correctly indicate the deprecated status; now they do.
Use the MeasureFormat class and its methods instead.</p>
the individual methods did not correctly indicate the deprecated status; they
do as of ICU 54. Use the MeasureFormat class and its methods instead.</p>
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<h3>Full release notes and the latest updates</h3>
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