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<h2>ReadMe: International Components for Unicode for Java</h2>
<p>Version: 1.3.1 June 12 2001 </p>
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<p>COPYRIGHT: <br>
Copyright (c) 2001 International Business Machines Corporation and others. All Rights
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<h3><u>Contents</u></h3>
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<li><a href="#introduction">Introduction</a></li>
<li><a href="#license">License Information</a></li>
<li><a href="#WhatContain">What the International Components for Unicode for Java Contains</a></li>
<li><a href="#API">API overview</a></li>
<li><a href="#PlatformDependencies">Platform Dependencies</a></li>
<li><a href="#HowToInstallJavac">How to Install and Build</a></li>
<li><a href="#WhereToFindMore">Where to Find More Information</a></li>
<li><a href="#SubmittingComments">Submitting Comments, Requesting Features and Reporting
Bugs</a></li>
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<h3><a NAME="introduction"></a><u>Introduction</u></h3>
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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).
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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:
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Unicode Normalization – – – – –
