ICU-2134 Various readme updates.

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<h1>International Components for Unicode<br>
ICU 2.2 ReadMe</h1>
<p>Version: 2002-Aug-15<br>
<p>Version: 2002-Aug-28<br>
Copyright &copy; 1997-2002 International Business Machines Corporation and
others. All Rights Reserved.</p>
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"http://oss.software.ibm.com/cvs/icu/~checkout~/icuhtml/design/ucd_icu.html">
available via direct APIs, and most via UnicodeSet</a>.</p>
<h3><b>Additional and modified converters</b></h3>
<h3>Additional and modified converters</h3>
<p>New converter implementations are added for:</p>
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binary order)</li>
</ul>
<h3><b>Flexible data loading</b></h3>
<h3>Flexible data loading</h3>
<p>ICU 2.2 has an extended search path functionality, more flexible data
override capabilities, and removes lesser-known heuristics for determining
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environment variable or via the u_setDataDirectory() function.<br>
ICU does not perform any other heuristics any more.</li>
</ul>
<b>Note:</b> while some of the old binary data may be still readable by ICU
<p><strong>Note:</strong> while some of the old binary data may be still readable by ICU
2.2 (resource bundles, for example), they need to be repackaged in order to
be used.
be used.</p>
<ul>
<li>If you have individual binary files, you have to rename them so that
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individual files and repackage them.</li>
</ul>
<h3><b>Customizable memory management</b></h3>
<h3>Customizable memory management</h3>
<p>ICU 2.2 libraries do not use the global operators new and delete.
Instead, all C++ classes are derived from a common base class UObject which
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</tr>
<tr>
<td><i>&lt;ICU&gt;</i>/source/<b>data</b> </td>
<td><i>&lt;ICU&gt;</i>/source/<b>data</b>/</td>
<td>
This directory contains the source data in text format, which is
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bundles. The makefile <b>resfiles.mk</b> contains the list of
resource bundle files.</li>
<li><b>mappings/</b> Here are the <b>code page converter
tables,</b> .ucm files containing mappings to and from Unicode.
<li><b>mappings/</b> Here are the code page converter
tables. These .ucm files contain mappings to and from Unicode.
These are compiled into .cnv files. <b>convrtrs.txt</b> is the
alias mapping table from various converter name formats to ICU
internal format and vice versa. It produces cnvalias.dat. The
internal format and vice versa. It produces cnvalias.icu. The
makefiles <b>ucmfiles.mk, ucmcore.mk,</b> and <b>ucmebcdic.mk</b>
contain the list of converters to be built.</li>
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<li><b>out/</b> This directory contains the assembled memory mapped
files.</li>
<li><b>out/build</b> This directory contains intermediate
<li><b>out/build/</b> This directory contains intermediate
(compiled) files, such as .cnv, .res, etc.</li>
</ul>
</td>
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<tr>
<td><i>&lt;ICU&gt;</i>/source/<b>tools</b> </td>
<td><i>&lt;ICU&gt;</i>/source/<b>tools</b>/</td>
<td>Tools for generating the data files. Data files are generated by
invoking <i>&lt;ICU&gt;</i>/source/data/build/makedata.bat on Win32 or
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</tr>
<tr>
<td><i>&lt;ICU&gt;</i>/source/<b>samples</b> </td>
<td><i>&lt;ICU&gt;</i>/source/<b>samples</b>/</td>
<td>Various sample programs that use ICU</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><i>&lt;ICU&gt;</i>/source/<b>extra</b> </td>
<td><i>&lt;ICU&gt;</i>/source/<b>extra</b>/</td>
<td>Non-supported API additions. Currently, it contains the 'ustdio'
file i/o library</td>
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*pgm and *srvpgm objects.<br>
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</li>
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the resolution of CRTCPPMOD used by the icc compiler</li-->
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In order to get the tests to run correctly, the QUTCOFFSET needs to