Globalizing ColdFusionMX: icu4j 4.01 released

January 16, 2009

icu4j 4.01 released

the icu4j project has just released version 4.01. its a regular maintenance release with the following changes (common across all flavors):

Unicode 5.1
locale data: Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) 1.6
charset converter file size improvement
date interval formatting (note only gregorian calendar is supported n this release)
improved plural support

specific icu4j changes include:

charset
- ICU2022 converter
- HZ converter
- SCSU/BOCU-1 converter
- charset converter callback
thai dictionary break iterator (yeah)
JDK TimeZone support (this is pretty decent as you can now share tz IDs between coldfusion/core java & icu4j)
locale service provider
more convenient formatting of year+month, day+month, and other combinations
simple duration formatting

i guess it's time to update the icu4j CFCs for the new formatting bits. as usual you can download the new version from here. btw you can still get a hold of the icu4j tools here.