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<h2>International Components for Unicode for Java (ICU4J)</h2>
-<h3>Read Me for ICU4J 50</h3>
-(Last Update: 2012-oct-03)
+<h3>Read Me for ICU4J 50 (50.1)</h3>
+(Last Update: 2012-oct-22)
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-<p><b>Note:</b> This is a development milestone release of ICU4J 50.
+<p><b>Note:</b> This is a release candidate version of ICU4J 50.
The contents of this document may not reflect the recent changes done
-for ICU 50 development. This milestone is intended for those wishing
-to get an early look at ICU 50 new features and API changes. It is not
-recommended for production use.
+for ICU 50 development. It is not recommended for production use.
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<p>For the most recent release, see the <a
href="http://www.icu-project.org/download/"> ICU4J
<h5> Generating Data from CLDR </h5>
<I> Note: This procedure assumes that all 3 sources are present</I>
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- <li>Checkout or download CLDR version 'release-22'</li>
- <li>Checkout ICU4C with tag 'milestone-50-0-2'</li>
- <li>Checkout ICU4J with tag 'milestone-50-0-2'</li>
+ <li>Checkout or download CLDR version 'release-22-1'</li>
+ <li>Checkout ICU4C with tag 'release-50-1'</li>
+ <li>Checkout ICU4J with tag 'release-50-1'</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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<h3 class="doc"><a name="timezone"></a>About ICU4J Time Zone</h3>
-<p>ICU4J 50M2 includes time zone data version 2012e, which is the latest one as of
+<p>ICU4J 50.1 includes time zone data version 2012g, which is the latest one as of
the release date. However, time zone data is frequently updated in response
to changes made by local governments around the world. If you need to update
the time zone data, please refer the ICU user guide topic