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International Components for Unicode for Java (ICU4J)
-Read Me for ICU4J 59RC
-(Last Update: 2017-Mar-31)
+Read Me for ICU4J 59.1
+(Last Update: 2017-Apr-11)
-
+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 release candidate of ICU4J 59.
+
For the most recent release, see the ICU4J
@@ -104,6 +104,12 @@ Calendars – Arabic, Buddhist, Chinese, Hebrew, Japanese, Ethiopic,
Required for correct presentation of dates in
certain countries
Date
+Format
+Enhancements – Date/time pattern generator, Relative date formatting, etc.
+ Enhancements to the normal Java date
+formatting.
+ Number
Format
Enhancements – Scientific Notation, Spelled-out, Compact decimal format, etc.
@@ -137,14 +143,13 @@ found in ICU4J.
Changes In This Release
See the ICU 59 download page
-about new features in this release.
-The list of API changes since the previous ICU4J release is available
+about new features in this release.
+The list of API changes since the previous ICU4J release is available
here.
-
-
-
-
+
+
+
License Information
@@ -849,20 +854,18 @@ The files in icudata.jar get extracted to com/ibm/icu/impl/data
-ICU4J data is built by ICU4C tools. Please see "icu4j-readme.txt" in $icu4c_root/source/data for the procedures.
+ICU4J data is built by ICU4C tools. Please see "icu4j-readme.txt" in icu4c/source/data for the procedures.
Generating Data from CLDR
Note: This procedure assumes that all 3 sources are present
- - 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
+ - Checkout or download CLDR version 'release-31-0-1'
+ - Checkout ICU with tag 'release-59-1'
+ - cd to icu4c/source/data directory
+ - Follow the instructions in icu4c/source/data/cldr-icu-readme.txt
- Rebuild ICU4C with the newly generated data.
- Run ICU4C tests to verify that the new data is good.
- - Build ICU4J data from ICU4C data by following the procedures in $icu4c_root/source/data/icu4j-readme.txt
- - cd to $icu4j_root dir
-
+ - Build ICU4J data from ICU4C data by following the procedures in icu4j/source/data/icu4j-readme.txt
+ - cd to icu4j dir
- Build and test icu4j