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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: 2017-Mar-04<br/>
+ <p>Last updated: 2017-Mar-28<br/>
Copyright © 2016 and later: Unicode, Inc. and others. License & terms of use:
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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>Important changes</h3>
+ <ul>
+ <li>All source files are UTF-8 encoded. On platforms where the native charset is not UTF-8,
+ including Windows, check the settings of your editor before working with the source.</li>
+ <li>Compiler support for C++11 is now required for building the ICU libraries.</li>
+ <li>The type of UChar is char16_t, on all platforms. This is no longer configurable.
+ This change may affect Windows code with assumptions that UChar was wchar_t, and thus
+ type compatible with other Windows code expecting wchar_t strings.</li>
+ <li>Windows XP and Windows Vista are no longer supported. (The minimum supported version is Windows 7).</li>
+ <li>Building the Visual Studio UWP projects requires Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 with a version of the Windows 10 SDK installed.</li>
+ </ul>
+
<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>
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>New for 59 RC</h3>
- <ul>
- <li>Windows XP and Windows Vista are no longer supported. (The minimum supported version is Windows 7).</li>
- <li>Building the Visual Studio UWP projects requires Visual Studio 2015 Update 3 with a version of the Windows 10 SDK installed.</li>
- </ul>
-
- <h3>New for 59 Milestone 1</h3>
- <ul>
- <li>Compiler support for C++11 is required for building the ICU libraries.</li>
- <li>All source files are UTF-8 encoded. On platforms where the native charset is not UTF-8,
- including Windows, check the settings of your editor before working with the source.</li>
- <li>The type of UChar is char16_t, on all platforms. This is no longer configurable.
- This change may affect Windows code with assumptions that UChar was wchar_t, and thus
- type compatible with other Windows code expecting wchar_t strings.</li>
- </ul>
-
<h2><a name="RecentPreviousChanges" href="#RecentPreviousChanges" id="RecentPreviousChanges">Changes in recent
previous releases</a></h2>
<li><b>brkitr/</b> Data files for character, word, sentence, title
casing and line boundary analysis.</li>
+ <li><b>coll/</b> Data for collation tailorings. The makefile
+ <b>colfiles.mk</b> contains the list of resource bundle files.</li>
+
<li><b>locales/</b> These .txt files contain ICU language and
culture-specific localization data. Two special bundles are
<b>root</b>, which is the fallback data and parent of other bundles,
and <b>index</b>, which contains a list of installed bundles. The
makefile <b>resfiles.mk</b> contains the list of resource bundle
- files.</li>
+ files. Some of the locale data is split out into the type-specific
+ directories curr, lang, region, unit, and zone, described below.</li>
+
+ <li><b>curr/</b> Locale data for currency symbols and names (including
+ plural forms), with its own makefile <b>resfiles.mk</b>.</li>
+
+ <li><b>lang/</b> Locale data for names of languages, scripts, and locale
+ key names and values, with its own makefile <b>resfiles.mk</b>.</li>
+
+ <li><b>region/</b> Locale data for names of regions, with its own
+ makefile <b>resfiles.mk</b>.</li>
+
+ <li><b>unit/</b> Locale data for measurement unit patterns and names,
+ with its own makefile <b>resfiles.mk</b>.</li>
+
+ <li><b>zone/</b> Locale data for time zone names, with its own
+ makefile <b>resfiles.mk</b>.</li>
<li><b>mappings/</b> Here are the code page converter tables. These
.ucm files contain mappings to and from Unicode. These are compiled
information.</li>
<li><b>misc/</b> The misc directory contains other data files which
- did not fit into the above categories. Currently it only contains
- time zone information, and a name preperation file for <a href=
- "http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3490.txt">IDNA</a>.</li>
+ did not fit into the above categories, including time zone
+ information, region-specific data, and other data derived from CLDR
+ supplemental data.</li>
<li><b>out/</b> This directory contains the assembled memory mapped
files.</li>
<p>In order to avoid synchronization and threading issues, developers are
<strong>suggested</strong> to strictly follow the compiling and linking
guidelines for multithreaded applications, specified in the following
- document from Sun Microsystems. Most notably, pay strict attention to the
+ SUn Solaris document available from Oracle. Most notably, pay strict attention to the
following statements from Sun:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Failure to do this may cause spurious lock conflicts, recursive mutex
failure, and deadlock.</p>
- <p>Source: "<i>Solaris Multithreaded Programming Guide, Compiling and
- Debugging</i>", Sun Microsystems, Inc., Apr 2004<br />
+ <p>Source: "<i>Multithreaded Programming Guide, Compiling and
+ Debugging</i>", Sun Microsystems, 2002 <br />
+ <a href=
+ "https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19683-01/806-6867/compile-74765/index.html">https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19683-01/806-6867/compile-74765/index.html</a></p>
+
+ <p>Note, a version of that chapter from a 2008 document update covering both Solaris 9
+ and Solaris 10 is available here:<br />
<a href=
- "http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5137/6mba5vpke?a=view">http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/816-5137/6mba5vpke?a=view</a></p>
+ "http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/816-5137/compile-94179/index.html">http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19253-01/816-5137/compile-94179/index.html</a></p>
<h3><a name="ImportantNotesWindows" href="#ImportantNotesWindows" id=
"ImportantNotesWindows">Windows Platform</a></h3>
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