Package com.ibm.icu.text

Extensions and enhancements to java.text to support unicode transforms, UnicodeSet, surrogate char utilities, UCA collation, normalization, break iteration (rule and dictionary based), enhanced number format, international string searching, and arabic shaping.

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Interface Summary
Replaceable Replaceable is an interface representing a string of characters that supports the replacement of a range of itself with a new string of characters.
StringTransform Provide a base class for Transforms that focuses just on the transformation of the text.
SymbolTable An interface that defines both lookup protocol and parsing of symbolic names.
Transliterator.Factory The factory interface for transliterators.
UForwardCharacterIterator Interface that defines an API for forward-only iteration on text objects.
UnicodeMatcher UnicodeMatcher defines a protocol for objects that can match a range of characters in a Replaceable string.
 

Class Summary
ArabicShaping Shape Arabic text on a character basis.
Bidi Bidi algorithm for ICU This is an implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional algorithm.
BidiClassifier Overrides default Bidi class values with custom ones.
BidiRun A BidiRun represents a sequence of characters at the same embedding level.
BreakDictionary Deprecated. This API is ICU internal only.
BreakIterator A class that locates boundaries in text.
CanonicalIterator This class allows one to iterate through all the strings that are canonically equivalent to a given string.
CharsetDetector CharsetDetector provides a facility for detecting the charset or encoding of character data in an unknown format.
CharsetMatch This class represents a charset that has been identified by a CharsetDetector as a possible encoding for a set of input data.
ChineseDateFormat A concrete DateFormat for ChineseCalendar.
ChineseDateFormat.Field The instances of this inner class are used as attribute keys and values in AttributedCharacterIterator that ChineseDateFormat.formatToCharacterIterator() method returns.
ChineseDateFormatSymbols A subclass of DateFormatSymbols for ChineseDateFormat.
CollationElementIterator CollationElementIterator is an iterator created by a RuleBasedCollator to walk through a string.
CollationKey A CollationKey represents a String under the rules of a specific Collator object.
CollationKey.BoundMode Options that used in the API CollationKey.getBound() for getting a CollationKey based on the bound mode requested.
Collator Collator performs locale-sensitive string comparison.
Collator.CollatorFactory A factory used with registerFactory to register multiple collators and provide display names for them.
ComposedCharIter Deprecated. ICU 2.2
DateFormat DateFormat is an abstract class for date/time formatting subclasses which formats and parses dates or time in a language-independent manner.
DateFormat.Field The instances of this inner class are used as attribute keys and values in AttributedCharacterIterator that DateFormat.formatToCharacterIterator() method returns.
DateFormatSymbols DateFormatSymbols is a public class for encapsulating localizable date-time formatting data, such as the names of the months, the names of the days of the week, and the time zone data.
DateIntervalFormat DateIntervalFormat is a class for formatting and parsing date intervals in a language-independent manner.
DateIntervalInfo DateIntervalInfo is a public class for encapsulating localizable date time interval patterns.
DateIntervalInfo.PatternInfo PatternInfo class saves the first and second part of interval pattern, and whether the interval pattern is earlier date first.
DateTimePatternGenerator This class provides flexible generation of date format patterns, like "yy-MM-dd".
DateTimePatternGenerator.FormatParser Deprecated. This API is ICU internal only.
DateTimePatternGenerator.PatternInfo PatternInfo supplies output parameters for add(...).
DateTimePatternGenerator.VariableField Deprecated. This API is ICU internal only.
DecimalFormat DecimalFormat is a concrete subclass of NumberFormat that formats decimal numbers.
DecimalFormatSymbols This class represents the set of symbols (such as the decimal separator, the grouping separator, and so on) needed by DecimalFormat to format numbers.
DictionaryBasedBreakIterator A subclass of RuleBasedBreakIterator that adds the ability to use a dictionary to further subdivide ranges of text beyond what is possible using just the state-table-based algorithm.
DurationFormat This class implements a formatter over a duration in time such as "2 days from now" or "3 hours ago".
IDNA IDNA API implements the IDNA protocol as defined in the IDNA RFC.
MeasureFormat A formatter for Measure objects.
MessageFormat MessageFormat provides a means to produce concatenated messages in language-neutral way.
MessageFormat.Field Defines constants that are used as attribute keys in the AttributedCharacterIterator returned from MessageFormat.formatToCharacterIterator.
Normalizer Unicode Normalization Unicode normalization API normalize transforms Unicode text into an equivalent composed or decomposed form, allowing for easier sorting and searching of text.
Normalizer.Mode Constants for normalization modes.
Normalizer.QuickCheckResult Result values for quickCheck().
NumberFormat NumberFormat is the abstract base class for all number formats.
NumberFormat.Field The instances of this inner class are used as attribute keys and values in AttributedCharacterIterator that NumberFormat.formatToCharacterIterator() method returns.
NumberFormat.NumberFormatFactory A NumberFormatFactory is used to register new number formats.
NumberFormat.SimpleNumberFormatFactory A NumberFormatFactory that supports a single locale.
PluralFormat PluralFormat supports the creation of internationalized messages with plural inflection.
PluralRules Defines rules for mapping positive double values onto a small set of keywords.
RawCollationKey Simple class wrapper to store the internal byte representation of a CollationKey.
ReplaceableString ReplaceableString is an adapter class that implements the Replaceable API around an ordinary StringBuffer.
RuleBasedBreakIterator Rule Based Break Iterator This is a port of the C++ class RuleBasedBreakIterator from ICU4C.
RuleBasedCollator RuleBasedCollator is a concrete subclass of Collator.
RuleBasedNumberFormat A class that formats numbers according to a set of rules.
RuleBasedTransliterator Deprecated. This API is ICU internal only.
SearchIterator SearchIterator is an abstract base class that defines a protocol for text searching.
SimpleDateFormat SimpleDateFormat is a concrete class for formatting and parsing dates in a locale-sensitive manner.
StringCharacterIterator Deprecated. ICU 2.4.
StringPrep StringPrep API implements the StingPrep framework as described by RFC 3454.
StringSearch StringSearch is the concrete subclass of SearchIterator that provides language-sensitive text searching based on the comparison rules defined in a RuleBasedCollator object.
TimeUnitFormat Format or parse a TimeUnitAmount, using plural rules for the units where available.
Transliterator Transliterator is an abstract class that transliterates text from one format to another.
Transliterator.Position Position structure for incremental transliteration.
UCharacterIterator Abstract class that defines an API for iteration on text objects.This is an interface for forward and backward iteration and random access into a text object.
UFormat An abstract class that extends Format to provide additional ICU protocol, specifically, the getLocale() API.
UnicodeCompressor A compression engine implementing the Standard Compression Scheme for Unicode (SCSU) as outlined in Unicode Technical Report #6.
UnicodeDecompressor A decompression engine implementing the Standard Compression Scheme for Unicode (SCSU) as outlined in Unicode Technical Report #6.
UnicodeFilter UnicodeFilter defines a protocol for selecting a subset of the full range (U+0000 to U+FFFF) of Unicode characters.
UnicodeSet A mutable set of Unicode characters and multicharacter strings.
UnicodeSet.XSymbolTable Internal class for customizing UnicodeSet parsing of properties.
UnicodeSetIterator UnicodeSetIterator iterates over the contents of a UnicodeSet.
UTF16 Standalone utility class providing UTF16 character conversions and indexing conversions.
UTF16.StringComparator UTF16 string comparator class.
 

Exception Summary
ArabicShapingException Thrown by ArabicShaping when there is a shaping error.
StringPrepParseException Exception that signals an error has occurred while parsing the input to StringPrep or IDNA.
 

Package com.ibm.icu.text Description

Extensions and enhancements to java.text to support unicode transforms, UnicodeSet, surrogate char utilities, UCA collation, normalization, break iteration (rule and dictionary based), enhanced number format, international string searching, and arabic shaping.



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