From f9d90ad80b1f5c44708e7dda049bec8322f1972a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Steven R. Loomis" <srl@icu-project.org>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 04:40:58 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] ICU-10178 clarify UnicodeString::compare

X-SVN-Rev: 34180
---
 icu4c/source/common/unicode/unistr.h | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/icu4c/source/common/unicode/unistr.h b/icu4c/source/common/unicode/unistr.h
index e70af40ebd7..e5a92c3fcdc 100644
--- a/icu4c/source/common/unicode/unistr.h
+++ b/icu4c/source/common/unicode/unistr.h
@@ -341,7 +341,8 @@ public:
   /**
    * Compare the characters bitwise in the range
    * [<TT>start</TT>, <TT>start + length</TT>) with the characters
-   * in <TT>text</TT>
+   * in the <b>entire string</b> <TT>text</TT>.
+   * (The parameters "start" and "length" are not applied to the other text "text".)
    * @param start the offset at which the compare operation begins
    * @param length the number of characters of text to compare.
    * @param text the other text to be compared against this string.
-- 
2.40.0