From 368f2e4c9caa8b48f241a4910433a4bcd19ea9d8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Doug Felt Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 02:15:40 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] ICU-4834 update in prep for 3.4.1 release X-SVN-Rev: 18633 --- icu4j/readme.html | 64 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------- 1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-) diff --git a/icu4j/readme.html b/icu4j/readme.html index 2f683fbdce3..23f46960c16 100644 --- a/icu4j/readme.html +++ b/icu4j/readme.html @@ -18,10 +18,14 @@ h3.doc { background: #CCCCFF }

International Components for Unicode for Java (ICU4J)

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Read Me for ICU4J 3.4

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Read Me for ICU4J 3.4.1

Release Date
-Jul 31, 2005
+Oct 7, 2005
+

+

Note: This is an update release of ICU4J 3.4. It contains bug fixes +and promotes some @draft API to stable, but does not introduce new API +or functionality. These changes will be rolled into the next release of ICU4J.

For the most recent release, see the ICU4J @@ -191,14 +195,11 @@ current and complete version of this support is always found in ICU4J. -->

What Is New In This Release?

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A complete report of the API changes between version 3.4 and -version 3.2 of ICU4J can be found +

A complete report of the API changes between version 3.4.1 and +version 3.4 of ICU4J can be found here. This report is generated by a tool and has some limitations, the most notable of which is that it does not properly reflect the effect of class inheritance @@ -207,34 +208,23 @@ not provide explanation or commentary on the changes. For background information and clarification of changes it's always recommended that you check the mailing list and archives.

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Unicode 4.1, CLDR 1.3 Support

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ICU has been updated to Unicode 4.1, including new character -properties and values. Collation has been updated to Unicode -Technical Standard #10 (UCA). Locale data has been updated to CLDR -1.3. Additional APIs have been added to access and display more -CLDR data.
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New Charset Detection API

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ICU4J provides heuristics for detecting the charset of a byte stream. -Users can create a Java Reader or String from any byte-oriented input stream -when the charset or encoding of the byte data is unknown. The implementation -recognizes most widely used encodings for European and Asian languages.
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Improved Date Formatting

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Time and Date formatting now supports narrow and standalone day and month names, as well -as generic time zones (e.g. "Pacific Time", "United Kingdom"). Time zone -name data is available for many more timezones and locales.
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Additional Calendar Support

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Existing Calendar APIs have been promoted to stable. Coptic and Ethiopic -calendars have been added. Calendar instantiation now recognizes the -calendar keyword in ULocale identifiers.
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Increased API compatibility with the JDK

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Several small differences between ICU4J APIs and the core Java APIs have been -removed. For example, types of some enum constants have been aligned with Java's -(int became byte), UCharacter added methods to match java.lang.Character APIs -(including some deprecated methods, for completeness).
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APIs promoted to stable

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At the request of several users of ICU4J, some draft APIs have been promoted +to stable earlier than usual. This enables use of this API without deprecated warnings. +(The next major release of ICU4J will deal with the issue of draft APIs and +deprecated warnings more completely.)

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Patches

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This release contains the following bug fixes, which don't involve API changes:

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