34 lines
1.2 KiB
HTML
34 lines
1.2 KiB
HTML
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN">
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<html>
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<head>
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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
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<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 3.0">
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<title>Text Boundaries</title>
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</head>
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<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
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<h1>Text Boundaries -- BreakIterator</h1>
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<p><big><big>Break Iterator also provides a C language API.</big></big>
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<ul>
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<li><font size="6">Line boundaries</font><br>
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<font size="5">-- used for line-wrapping</font> <br>
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<font size="5">-- correctly handles punctuation and hyphenated words.</font> </li>
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<li><font size="6">Sentence boundaries</font><br>
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<font size="5">-- handles periods within numbers and abbreviations</font> <br>
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<font size="5">-- handles trailing punctuation marks such as parentheses.</font> </li>
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<li><font size="6">Word boundaries</font><br>
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<font size="5">-- for search and replace functions</font> <br>
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<font size="5">-- for selecting words with a double mouse click</font> </li>
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<li><font size="6">Character boundaries</font><br>
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<font size="5">-- handles combining characters</font></li>
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</ul>
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<p><a href="../readme.html#API">ReadMe for IBM's International Classes for Unicode, API
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Overview</a></p>
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</body>
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</html>
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