Old location of the ICU User Guide

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As companies integrate e-commerce on a global scale into theirfundamental business processes, their prospective customers,established customers, and active partners can take advantage ofincreased revenue and decreased expenses through softwareinternationalization. They also can improve customer communications andincrease savings.Meeting the Challenge of GlobalizationInternationalized software results in an increase in: Intoday's business climate of globalization, companies must compete in anew Internet-enabled business climate of constant change and compressedtime frames. Their customers expect reliable service and support.Taking Advantage of Internationalized SoftwareCompaniesneed to establish a better linkage between their global businessprocesses and the underlying supportive IT processes. If they want todeliver this new flexibility and agility, they must depend on thesoftware internationalization process.The softwareinternationalization development process uses libraries (such as theInternational Components for Unicode (ICU) libraries), to enable onesingle program to work with text in any language for any place in theworld. For example, instead of having separate software versions forten different countries, the ICU services can create one version thatworks seamlessly and transparently in all of them.The ICUcomponents are an integral part of software development because theyhide the cultural nuances and technical complexities of locale-specificsoftware requirements. These complexities provide criticalfunctionality for applications, but the application developer does notneed to exert a huge effort or incur high costs to build them.Justifying the InvestmentThebusiness case needed to justify the investment in softwareinternationalization is compelling when the investment is amortizedover a number of projects. In the fast-paced and rapidly-evolving worldof traditional and evolving e-businesses, these internationalcomponents provide a firm ground on which companies, partners andsuppliers can build their business transactions. They can sharecompetitive information to help gain a significant economic advantage.TheICU services deliver proven value by lowering the cost required tointegrate with disparate applications, systems and data sources on aregional and global scale. It provides value to a company's ITinvestment by lowering IT complexity, risk, maintenance costs andtraining costs. It also enhances organizational flexibility, leverages existingassets, and improves planning and decision-making. It enablesorganizational learning, process-driven synchronization, event-drivenevaluation and decision-making.Background and History of ICUICUwas originally developed by the Taligent company. The Taligent teamlater became the Unicode group at the IBM® Globalization Center ofCompetency in Cupertino. The team has received significant input fromthe open source community worldwide.Java™ classes developed atTaligent were incorporated into the Java Development Kit (JDK) 1.1developed by Sun® Microsystems. The classes were then ported to C++ andlater some classes were also ported to C. The classes provideinternationalization utilities for writing global applications in C,C++, or Java programming languages.ICU for Java (ICU4J) includesenhanced versions of some of these classes, plus additional classesthat complement the classes in the JDK. C and C++ versions of the sameinternational functionality are available in ICU for C (ICU4C). TheAPIs differ slightly due to language differences and new functionality.For example, ICU4C includes a character converter API.ICU4J andICU4C keep the same development goals. They both track additions to theJava internationalization APIs and implement the latest releasedUnicode standard. They also maintain a single, portable source codebase.All of us in the ICU and open source group appreciate thetime you are taking to understand our technology. We have put our bestcollective effort into these open components, and look forward to yourquestions, comments and suggestions.Downloading ICUDownload ICU in one of the following ways:From the down load page, http://www.icu-project.org/download/, for packaged stable releases of ICU.From the source code repository, http://www.icu-project.org/repository/, for the latest development versions.After downloading, see the included README file for information on what is included, building, installing, etc.ICU LicenseCurrent license: http://source.icu-project.org/repos/icu/trunk/icu4c/LICENSESee also http://userguide.icu-project.org/icufaq#TOC-How-is-the-ICU-licensed-

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