diff --git a/icu4c/source/allinone/allinone.dsw b/icu4c/source/allinone/allinone.dsw
index eae530496a..cfbf0bb1af 100644
--- a/icu4c/source/allinone/allinone.dsw
+++ b/icu4c/source/allinone/allinone.dsw
@@ -89,6 +89,9 @@ Package=<4>
     Begin Project Dependency
     Project_Dep_Name ustdio
     End Project Dependency
+    Begin Project Dependency
+    Project_Dep_Name genbrk
+    End Project Dependency
 }}}
 
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@@ -189,24 +192,6 @@ Package=<4>
 
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-Project: "genbrk"=..\tools\genbrk\genbrk.dsp - Package Owner=<4>
-
-Package=<5>
-{{{
-}}}
-
-Package=<4>
-{{{
-    Begin Project Dependency
-    Project_Dep_Name common
-    End Project Dependency
-    Begin Project Dependency
-    Project_Dep_Name toolutil
-    End Project Dependency
-}}}
-
-###############################################################################
-
 Project: "derb"=..\TOOLS\GENRB\derb.dsp - Package Owner=<4>
 
 Package=<5>
@@ -225,6 +210,24 @@ Package=<4>
 
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+Project: "genbrk"=..\tools\genbrk\genbrk.dsp - Package Owner=<4>
+
+Package=<5>
+{{{
+}}}
+
+Package=<4>
+{{{
+    Begin Project Dependency
+    Project_Dep_Name common
+    End Project Dependency
+    Begin Project Dependency
+    Project_Dep_Name toolutil
+    End Project Dependency
+}}}
+
+###############################################################################
+
 Project: "genccode"=..\tools\genccode\genccode.dsp - Package Owner=<4>
 
 Package=<5>
@@ -557,6 +560,9 @@ Package=<4>
     Begin Project Dependency
     Project_Dep_Name toolutil
     End Project Dependency
+    Begin Project Dependency
+    Project_Dep_Name genbrk
+    End Project Dependency
 }}}
 
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diff --git a/icu4c/source/common/unicode/parseerr.h b/icu4c/source/common/unicode/parseerr.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..71a175e232
--- /dev/null
+++ b/icu4c/source/common/unicode/parseerr.h
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+/*
+**********************************************************************
+*   Copyright (C) 1999-2000, International Business Machines
+*   Corporation and others.  All Rights Reserved.
+**********************************************************************
+*   Date        Name        Description
+*   03/14/00    aliu        Creation.
+*   06/27/00    aliu        Change from C++ class to C struct
+**********************************************************************
+*/
+#ifndef PARSEERR_H
+#define PARSEERR_H
+
+#include "unicode/utypes.h"
+
+
+/**
+ * The capacity of the context strings in UParseError.
+ * @draft ICU 2.0
+ */ 
+enum { U_PARSE_CONTEXT_LEN = 16 };
+
+/**
+ * A UParseError struct is used to returned detailed information about
+ * parsing errors.  It is used by ICU parsing engines that parse long
+ * rules, patterns, or programs, where the text being parsed is long
+ * enough that more information than a UErrorCode is needed to
+ * localize the error.
+ *
+ * <p>The code field is an integer error code specific to each parsing
+ * engine, but globally unique.  See the engine header file for
+ * possible values.  The line, offset, and context fields are
+ * optional; parsing engines may choose not to use to use them.
+ *
+ * <p>Examples of engines which use UParseError (or may use it in the
+ * future) are RuleBasedTransliterator and RuleBasedBreakIterator.
+ * 
+ * @draft ICU 2.0
+ */
+typedef struct _UParseError {
+
+    /**
+     * An integer indicating the type of error.  If no error was
+     * encountered, the parse engine sets this to zero, and the
+     * other fields' values should be ignored.
+     *
+     * <p>Each parse engine should use a range of codes from
+     * 0xNNNN0001 to 0xNNNNFFFF, where NNNN is a 16-bit integer
+     * between 0x0001 and 0xFFFF unique to each parse engine.
+     * Parse engines should define the enum PARSE_ERROR_BASE
+     * to be 0xNNNN0000.
+     */
+    /*int32_t        code; */
+
+    /**
+     * The line on which the error occured.  If the parse engine
+     * is not using this field, it should set it to zero.  Otherwise
+     * it should be a positive integer. The default value of this field
+     * is -1. It will be set to 0 if the code populating this struct is not
+     * using line numbers.
+     */
+    int32_t        line;
+
+    /**
+     * The character offset to the error.  If the line field is
+     * being used, then this offset is from the start of the line.
+     * If the line field is not being used, then this offset is from
+     * the start of the text.The default value of this field
+     * is -1. It will be set to appropriate value by the code that 
+     * populating the struct.
+     */
+    int32_t    offset;
+
+    /**
+     * Textual context before the error.  Null-terminated.
+     * May be the empty string if not implemented by parser.
+     */
+    UChar          preContext[U_PARSE_CONTEXT_LEN];
+
+    /**
+     * Textual context after the error.  Null-terminated.
+     * May be the empty string if not implemented by parser.
+     */
+    UChar          postContext[U_PARSE_CONTEXT_LEN];
+
+} UParseError;
+
+#endif