diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index c5c891de776..42e7b1a693f 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -85,6 +85,8 @@ icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/dev/data/rbbi/english.dict -text
 icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/dev/data/thai6.ucs -text
 icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/dev/data/unicode/Draft-TestSuite.txt -text
 icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/impl/data/thai_dict -text
+icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/impl/data/unames.dat -text
+icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/impl/data/uprops.dat -text
 icu4j/src/com/ibm/text/resources/Transliterator_Fullwidth_Halfwidth.utf8.txt -text
 icu4j/src/com/ibm/text/resources/Transliterator_Han_Pinyin.utf8.txt -text
 icu4j/src/com/ibm/text/resources/Transliterator_Hiragana_Katakana.utf8.txt -text
@@ -92,8 +94,8 @@ icu4j/src/com/ibm/text/resources/Transliterator_Kanji_English.utf8.txt -text
 icu4j/src/com/ibm/text/resources/Transliterator_Kanji_OnRomaji.utf8.txt -text
 icu4j/src/com/ibm/text/resources/Transliterator_Latin_Jamo.utf8.txt -text
 icu4j/src/com/ibm/text/resources/thai_dict -text
-icu4j/src/com/ibm/text/unames.dat -text
-icu4j/src/com/ibm/text/uprops.dat -text
+icu4j/src/com/ibm/text/resources/unames.dat -text
+icu4j/src/com/ibm/text/resources/uprops.dat -text
 icu4j/src/data/holidays_jp.ucs -text
 icu4j/src/data/thai6.ucs -text
 icu4j/src/data/unicode/Draft-TestSuite.txt -text
diff --git a/icu4j/build.xml b/icu4j/build.xml
index e29a3019a24..37c63faeea5 100644
--- a/icu4j/build.xml
+++ b/icu4j/build.xml
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
 *******************************************************************************
 *
 * $Source: /xsrl/Nsvn/icu/icu4j/build.xml,v $ 
-* $Date: 2001/10/19 20:53:54 $ 
-* $Revision: 1.36 $
+* $Date: 2001/10/19 22:15:37 $ 
+* $Revision: 1.37 $
 *
 *******************************************************************************
 * This is the ant build file for ICU4J.  See readme.html for more information.
@@ -94,11 +94,7 @@
   <target name ="coreData" depends="init">
     <copy todir="${build.dir}/com/ibm/text/resources">
       <fileset dir="${src.dir}/com/ibm/text/resources"
-               includes="Transliterator_*.txt"/>
-    </copy>
-    <copy todir="${build.dir}/com/ibm/text">
-      <fileset dir="${src.dir}/com/ibm/text"
-               includes="unames.dat,uprops.dat"/>
+               includes="Transliterator_*.txt,*.dat"/>
     </copy>
   </target>
 
diff --git a/icu4j/src/com/ibm/text/unames.dat b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/impl/data/unames.dat
similarity index 100%
rename from icu4j/src/com/ibm/text/unames.dat
rename to icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/impl/data/unames.dat
diff --git a/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/impl/data/uprops.dat b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/impl/data/uprops.dat
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..e79841e8e5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/impl/data/uprops.dat
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:a0f9176f6d01494ef1bc6ed2b3cc3c2e3897345747667b644befecc1cc7dcccb
+size 29652
diff --git a/icu4j/src/com/ibm/text/UCharacterNameDB.java b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/text/UCharacterNameDB.java
index 65716f3597e..be819a9f273 100755
--- a/icu4j/src/com/ibm/text/UCharacterNameDB.java
+++ b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/text/UCharacterNameDB.java
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@
 *******************************************************************************
 *
 * $Source: /xsrl/Nsvn/icu/icu4j/src/com/ibm/text/Attic/UCharacterNameDB.java,v $ 
-* $Date: 2001/08/22 22:38:30 $ 
-* $Revision: 1.5 $
+* $Date: 2001/10/19 22:15:53 $ 
+* $Revision: 1.6 $
 *
 *******************************************************************************
 */
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ final class UCharacterNameDB extends UCharacterDB
   /**
   * Default name of the name datafile
   */
-  private static final String NAME_FILE_NAME_ = "unames.dat";
+  private static final String NAME_FILE_NAME_ = "resources/unames.dat";
   
   /**
   * Default buffer size of datafile
diff --git a/icu4j/src/com/ibm/text/UCharacterPropertyDB.java b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/text/UCharacterPropertyDB.java
index d5e961c62b2..92cefc21da0 100755
--- a/icu4j/src/com/ibm/text/UCharacterPropertyDB.java
+++ b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/text/UCharacterPropertyDB.java
@@ -6,8 +6,8 @@
 *
 * $Source: 
 *         /usr/cvs/icu4j/icu4j/src/com/ibm/icu/text/UCharacterPropertyDB.java $ 
-* $Date: 2001/06/21 23:20:53 $ 
-* $Revision: 1.4 $
+* $Date: 2001/10/19 22:15:53 $ 
+* $Revision: 1.5 $
 *
 *******************************************************************************
 */
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ package com.ibm.text;
 
 import java.io.InputStream;
 import java.io.DataInputStream;
+import java.io.FileInputStream;
 import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
 import java.io.IOException;
 
@@ -98,7 +99,7 @@ final class  UCharacterPropertyDB extends UCharacterDB
   /**
   * Default name of the datafile
   */
-  private static final String DATA_FILE_NAME_ = "uprops.dat";
+  private static final String DATA_FILE_NAME_ = "resources/uprops.dat";
   
   /**
   * Default buffer size of datafile
@@ -197,6 +198,7 @@ final class  UCharacterPropertyDB extends UCharacterDB
   {
     UGenPropReader reader = new UGenPropReader();
     
+    // jar access
     InputStream i = getClass().getResourceAsStream(DATA_FILE_NAME_);
     BufferedInputStream b = new BufferedInputStream(i, DATA_BUFFER_SIZE_);
     DataInputStream d = new DataInputStream(b);
diff --git a/icu4j/src/com/ibm/text/resources/unames.dat b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/text/resources/unames.dat
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..84f30c20f3d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/text/resources/unames.dat
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:be46b526e1f2ba8f154b7f393dd5f717b650620397ebf6c6f1ba332ff1617634
+size 100428
diff --git a/icu4j/src/com/ibm/text/resources/uprops.dat b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/text/resources/uprops.dat
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..e79841e8e5b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/text/resources/uprops.dat
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:a0f9176f6d01494ef1bc6ed2b3cc3c2e3897345747667b644befecc1cc7dcccb
+size 29652
diff --git a/icu4j/src/com/ibm/text/uprops.dat b/icu4j/src/com/ibm/text/uprops.dat
deleted file mode 100755
index 9eb3b0c656c..00000000000
--- a/icu4j/src/com/ibm/text/uprops.dat
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
-oid sha256:b218cde43dde10421810d0b33f159f8967308ea26b899853cb29d50e72ad5547
-size 29548