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+ <title>ReadMe for ICU 59.0.1</title>
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<p class="only-draft"><b>Note:</b> This is a draft readme.</p>
International Components for Unicode<br/>
<span class="only-rc">Release Candidate</span>
<span class="only-milestone">(Milestone Release)</span>
- <abbr title="International Components for Unicode">ICU</abbr> 58.1 ReadMe
+ <abbr title="International Components for Unicode">ICU</abbr> 59.0.1 ReadMe
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<p class="note only-rc">This is a release candidate version of ICU4C.
It is not recommended for production use.</p>
- <p>Last updated: 2016-Oct-13<br/>
+ <p>Last updated: 2017-Jan-15<br/>
Copyright © 2016 and later: Unicode, Inc. and others. License & terms of use:
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html">http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html</a><br/>
Copyright © 1997-2016 International Business Machines Corporation and others.
<h2><a name="News" href="#News" id="News">What is new in this
release?</a></h2>
- <h3>New License</h3>
+ <h3>API Changes</h3>
+ <p>See the <a href="APIChangeReport.html">API Change Report</a> for a complete
+ list of APIs added, removed, or changed in this release.</p>
+
+ <!-- standing item -->
+ <h3>Full release notes and the latest updates</h3>
+ <p>The previous list concentrates on <em>changes that affect existing
+ applications migrating from previous ICU releases</em>.
+ For more news about this release, as well as late-breaking news, see the
+ <a href="http://site.icu-project.org/download/57">ICU download page</a>.</p>
+
+ <h3>Upcoming changes</h3>
+ <p>Please note the following changes planned for an upcoming ICU4C release (likely ICU 59):</p>
+ <ul>
+ <li>Compiler support for C++11 will be required.</li>
+ <li>Support for Windows XP will be removed.</li>
+ </ul>
+
+ <h2><a name="RecentPreviousChanges" href="#RecentPreviousChanges" id="RecentPreviousChanges">Changes in recent
+ previous releases</a></h2>
+
+ <!-- ICU 58 items -->
+ <h3>ICU 58: New License</h3>
<p>This is the first release of ICU since the project
<a href="http://blog.unicode.org/2016/05/icu-joins-unicode-consortium.html">joined
the Unicode Consortium</a>. The license has changed to the
<a href="http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html#License">Unicode license</a>
(which is similar to the ICU 1.8.1-57 license).</p>
- <h3>Layout Engine Removed</h3>
+ <h3>ICU 58: Layout Engine Removed</h3>
<p>The LayoutEngine was deprecated in ICU 54 and has now been removed.
see <a href='http://userguide.icu-project.org/layoutengine'>the
User's Guide</a> for more details and migration recommendations.
compatibility, but have no effect.
</p>
- <h3>Changes in CLDR 30 data</h3>
+ <h3>ICU 58: Changes in CLDR 30 data</h3>
<ul>
<li>For some combinations of numbering system (arab, arabext, latn) and/or locale
(ar, fa, he), there were changes to the bidirectional control characters used
page</a>.</li>
</ul>
- <h3>Windows build changes</h3>
+ <h3>ICU 58: Windows build changes</h3>
<p>Windows builds using Visual Studio now require Visual Studio 2015; otherwise you can
use cygwin or similar to build for Windows.</p>
- <h3>API Changes</h3>
- <p>See the <a href="APIChangeReport.html">API Change Report</a> for a complete
- list of APIs added, removed, or changed in this release.</p>
-
- <!-- standing item -->
- <h3>Full release notes and the latest updates</h3>
- <p>The previous list concentrates on <em>changes that affect existing
- applications migrating from previous ICU releases</em>.
- For more news about this release, as well as late-breaking news, see the
- <a href="http://site.icu-project.org/download/57">ICU download page</a>.</p>
-
- <h3>Upcoming changes</h3>
- <p>Please note the following changes planned for an upcoming ICU4C release (likely ICU 59):</p>
- <ul>
- <li>Compiler support for C++11 will be required.</li>
- <li>Support for Windows XP will be removed.</li>
- </ul>
-
- <h2><a name="RecentPreviousChanges" href="#RecentPreviousChanges" id="RecentPreviousChanges">Changes in recent
- previous releases</a></h2>
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<h3>ICU 57: Changes related to new CLDR data and specifications</h3>
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