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<h1>International Components for Unicode for Java (ICU4J)</h1>
-<h2>Read Me for ICU4J Release Candidate</h2>
-(Last Update: 2016-Oct-14)
+<h2>Read Me for ICU4J 59m1</h2>
+(Last Update: 2016-Jan-30)
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<p>
-<b>Note:</b> This is major release of ICU4J. It contains bug fixes and adds implementations
-of inherited API and introduces new API or functionality.
-<!-- <b>Note:</b> This is a development release of ICU4J 58.
+<!-- <b>Note:</b> This is major release of ICU4J. It contains bug fixes and adds implementations
+of inherited API and introduces new API or functionality. -->
+<b>Note:</b> This is a development release of ICU4J 59.
The contents of this document may not reflect the recent changes done
-for ICU 58 development. This milestone is intended for those wishing
-to get an early look at ICU4J 58 new features and API changes. It is not
-recommended for production use. -->
-<!-- <b>Note:</b> This is a release candidate of ICU4J 58.
+for ICU 59 development. This milestone is intended for those wishing
+to get an early look at ICU4J 59 new features and API changes. It is not
+recommended for production use.
+<!-- <b>Note:</b> This is a release candidate of ICU4J 59.
The contents of this document may not reflect the recent changes done
-for ICU 58 development. This release candidate is intended for those
-wishing to verify ICU 58 integration before final release. It is not
+for ICU 59 development. This release candidate is intended for those
+wishing to verify ICU 59 integration before final release. It is not
recommended for production use. -->
</p>
<p>For the most recent release, see the <a
<h2 class="doc"><a name="changes"></a>Changes In This Release</h2>
-<p>See the <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/icusite/download/58">ICU 58 download page</a>
+<p>See the <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/icusite/download/59">ICU 59 download page[TBD]</a>
about new features in this release.
The list of API changes since the previous ICU4J release is available
-<a href="http://source.icu-project.org/repos/icu/icu4j/tags/release-58-1/APIChangeReport.html">here</a>.</p>
-
- <!-- ICU 58 items -->
-<h3 class="doc">ICU development and license change</h3>
-The Unicode® Consortium hosts development of the ICU libraries starting from this relase.
-The ICU Project Management Committee is now a Unicode Technical Committee, the ICU-TC.
-ICU will continue to be released under a <a href="http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html#License">similar open source license</a>.
-For more details, see the <a href="http://blog.unicode.org/2016/05/icu-joins-unicode-consortium.html">Unicode announcement</a>.
-
+<a href="http://source.icu-project.org/repos/icu/tags/milestone-59-0-1/icu4j/APIChangeReport.html">here</a>.</p>
+ <!-- ICU 59 items -->
<!-- <h3>[Subject]</h3> -->
- <!-- end ICU 58 items -->
+ <!-- end ICU 59 items -->
<h2 class="doc"><a name="license"></a>License Information</h2>
<p>
</p>
<h2 class="doc"><a name="PlatformDependencies"></a>Platform Dependencies</h2>
<p>
-ICU4J 58 depends on J2SE 6 functionality. Therefore, ICU4J only runs on
+ICU4J 59 depends on J2SE 6 functionality. Therefore, ICU4J only runs on
JRE version 6 or later.
<h2 class="doc"><a name="download"></a>How to Download ICU4J</h2>
organization
of the data in ICU4J.</p>
<ul>
- <li>The primary <b>locale data</b> is under the directory <tt>icudt58b</tt>,
+ <li>The primary <b>locale data</b> is under the directory <tt>icudt59b</tt>,
as a set of <tt>".res"</tt> files whose names are the locale identifiers.
Locale naming is documented the <code>com.ibm.icu.util.ULocale</code>
class, and the use of these names in searching for resources is documented
in <code>com.ibm.icu.util.UResourceBundle</code>.</li>
- <li>The <b>break iterator data</b> is under the directory <tt>icudt58b/brkitr</tt>,
+ <li>The <b>break iterator data</b> is under the directory <tt>icudt59b/brkitr</tt>,
as a set of <tt>".res"</tt>, <tt>".brk"</tt> and <tt>".dict"</tt> files.</li>
- <li>The <b>collation data</b> is under the directory <tt>icudt58b/coll</tt>,
+ <li>The <b>collation data</b> is under the directory <tt>icudt59b/coll</tt>,
as a set of <tt>".res"</tt> files.</li>
- <li>The <b>currency display name data</b> is under the directory <tt>icudt58b/curr</tt>,
+ <li>The <b>currency display name data</b> is under the directory <tt>icudt59b/curr</tt>,
as a set of <tt>".res"</tt> files.</li>
- <li>The <b>language display name data</b> is under the directory <tt>icudt58b/lang</tt>,
+ <li>The <b>language display name data</b> is under the directory <tt>icudt59b/lang</tt>,
as a set of <tt>".res"</tt> files.</li>
<li>The <b>rule-based number format data</b> is under the directory
- <tt>icudt58b/rbnf</tt>, as a set of <tt>".res"</tt> files.
+ <tt>icudt59b/rbnf</tt>, as a set of <tt>".res"</tt> files.
- <li>The <b>region display name data</b> is under the directory <tt>icudt58b/region</tt>,
+ <li>The <b>region display name data</b> is under the directory <tt>icudt59b/region</tt>,
as a set of <tt>".res"</tt> files.</li>
<li>The <b>rule-based transliterator data</b> is under the directory
- <tt>icudt58b/translit</tt>, as a set of <tt>".res"</tt> files.</li>
+ <tt>icudt59b/translit</tt>, as a set of <tt>".res"</tt> files.</li>
- <li>The <b>measurement unit data</b> is under the directory <tt>icudt58b/unit</tt>,
+ <li>The <b>measurement unit data</b> is under the directory <tt>icudt59b/unit</tt>,
as a set of <tt>".res"</tt> files.</li>
<li>The <b>time zone display name data</b> is under the directory
- <tt>icudt58b/zone</tt>, as a set of <tt>".res"</tt> files.</li>
+ <tt>icudt59b/zone</tt>, as a set of <tt>".res"</tt> files.</li>
<li>The <b>character property data</b> and default <b>unicode collation algorithm
- (UCA) data</b> is found under the directory <tt>icudt58b</tt>, as a set of
+ (UCA) data</b> is found under the directory <tt>icudt59b</tt>, as a set of
<tt>".icu"</tt> files. </li>
- <li>The <b>normalization data</b> is found under the directory <tt>icudt58b</tt>,
+ <li>The <b>normalization data</b> is found under the directory <tt>icudt59b</tt>,
as a set of <tt>".nrm"</tt> files. </li>
<li>The <b>character set converter data</b> is under the directory
- <tt>icudt58b</tt>, as a set of <tt>".cnv"</tt> files. These files are
+ <tt>icudt59b</tt>, as a set of <tt>".cnv"</tt> files. These files are
currently included only in icu-charset.jar.</li>
<li>The <b>time zone rule data</b> is under the directory
- <tt>icudt58b</tt>, as <tt>zoneinfo64.res</tt>.</li>
+ <tt>icudt59b</tt>, as <tt>zoneinfo64.res</tt>.</li>
- <li>The <b>holiday data</b> is under the directory <tt>icudt58b</tt>,
+ <li>The <b>holiday data</b> is under the directory <tt>icudt59b</tt>,
as a set of <tt>".class"</tt> files, named <tt>"HolidayBundle_"</tt>
followed by the locale ID.</li>
<h5> Generating Data from CLDR </h5>
<I> Note: This procedure assumes that all 3 sources are present</I>
<ol>
- <li>Checkout or download CLDR version 'release-30-0-1'</li>
- <li>Checkout ICU4C with tag 'release-58-1'</li>
- <li>Checkout ICU4J with tag 'release-58-1'</li>
+ <li>Checkout or download CLDR version 'release-31'</li>
+ <li>Checkout ICU4C with tag 'release-59-1'</li>
+ <li>Checkout ICU4J with tag 'release-59-1'</li>
<li>cd to <I>$icu4c_root</I>/source/data directory</li>
<li>Follow the instructions in <I>$icu4c_root</I>/source/data/cldr-icu-readme.txt</li>
<li>Rebuild ICU4C with the newly generated data.</li>
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