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<h3><a NAME="introduction"></a><u>Introduction</u></h3>
<p>Today's software market is a global one in which it is desirable to develop and
maintain one application that supports a wide variety of national languages. International
Components for Unicode for Java provides the following tools to help you write language
independent applications:
<p>
In today's global market, it is crucial to develop and maintain programs that support a wide variety of national languages. Customers prefer software and web pages in their own languages. Studies confirm that this leads to increased sales. Java provides a very strong foundation for global
programs (IBM and the ICU4J team played a key role in providing such technology into Sun's standard Java version).
</p>
<p>
However, Java does not yet provide some features that are required in some products. The ICU4J library is an add-on to the regular JVM that provides the following tools:
<ul>
<li>
Unicode Normalization – NFC, NFD, NFKD, NFKC
<blockquote>Produces canonical text representations, needed for XML and the net</blockquote>
<li>
International Calendars – Arabic, Buddhist, Hebrew, and Japanese
<blockquote>Required for correct presentation of dates in some countries.</blockquote>
<li>
Number Format Enhancements – Scientific Notation, Spelled-out, etc.
<blockquote>Enhances the normal Java number formatting. The spell-out format is used
for checks and similar documents.</blockquote>
<ul type="disc">
<li>International Calendars &#150; Arabic, Buddhist, Hebrew, Japanese</li>
<li>Unicode Normalization &#150; Canonical text representation for W3C</li>
<li>Number Format Enhancements &#150; Scientific Notation, Spelled-out, ...</li>
<li>Enhanced word-break detection &#150; Rule-based, supports Thai</li>
<li>Unicode Text Searching &#150; Efficient multi-lingual searching</li>
<li>Unicode Text Compression &#150; 2:1 compression on English Unicode text</li>
</ul>
<li>Enhanced word-break detection – Rule-based, supports Thai
<blockquote>Required for correct support of Thai.</blockquote>
<p>Your comments are important to making this release successful.&nbsp; We are committed
to fixing any bugs, and will also use your feedback to help plan future releases. </p>
<li>Unicode Text Compression – Standard compression of Unicode text
<blockquote>Suitable for large numbers of small fields, where LZW and similar schemes
do not apply</blockquote>
</ul>
In some cases, the above support has been rolled into a later release of
Java. For example, the Thai word-break is now in Java 1.4. However, if you
are using Java 1.2, you can use the ICU4J package until you upgrade to 1.4.
</p>
<h3><a name=license></a><u>License Information</u></h3>
<p>
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<h3><a NAME="SubmittingComments"></a><u>Submitting Comments, Requesting Features and
Reporting Bugs</u></h3>
<p>Your comments are important to making this release successful.&nbsp; We are committed
to fixing any bugs, and will also use your feedback to help plan future releases. </p>
<p>To submit comments, request features and report bugs, contact us through the <a href=http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu4j/archives/index.html>ICU4J mailing list</a>.<br>
While we are not able to respond individually to each comment, we do review all comments. </p>
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<p>Copyright © 2001 International Business Machines Corporation and others. All Rights
Reserved. <br>
IBM Center for Java Technology Silicon Valley, <br>
10275 N De Anza Blvd., Cupertino, CA 95014 <br>
All rights reserved. </p>