ICU provides multiple text access interfaces which were added over time. If
simple strings cannot be used, then consider the following:
-1. [UText](utext.md): Added in ICU4C 3.4 as a technology preview. Intended to
- be the strategic text access API for use with ICU. C API, high performance,
- writable, supports native indexes for efficient non-UTF-16 text storage. So
- far (3.4) only supported in BreakIterator. Some API changes are anticipated
- for ICU 3.6.
+1. [UText](utext.md): Intended to be the strategic text access API for use
+ with ICU. C API, high performance, writable, supports native indexes for
+ efficient non-UTF-16 text storage.
2. Replaceable (Java & C++) and UReplaceable (C): Writable, designed for use
with Transliterator.