Globalizing ColdFusionMX: get it while it's hot: icu4j 3.4 beta

July 02, 2005

get it while it's hot: icu4j 3.4 beta

IBM just announced the beta release of icu4j 3.4. some of the nifty new stuff in this release includes:

updated to Unicode 4.1
collation engine updated to UCA 4.1
fully conformant with CLDR 1.3
charset detection framework (which looks very useful)
message formatting apostophe solution
additional usability APIs
new currency listing API
more API for accessing CLDR data
Coptic and Ethiopic calendars (that makes 8 icu4j calendars and Dr. Ghasem Kiani's persian calendar for a total of 9, count 'em 9, calendars)
more efficient data loading

you can download the beta release here. report any bugs by july 17th.

and in case you were wondering, today (2-jul-2005) is October 25, 1721 in the Coptic calendar and October 25, 7497 (Amete Alem Era) in the Ethiopic calendar system.