ICU 4.6

Trac Milestone 4.6

All

• • Unicode 6.0 (#7264)

  • CLDR 1.9

Apple

• • Roll-in of ICU4C lenient date/time/number parsing changes from branch (#3579, #6109, etc.)

  • Regex enhancements (new API) (need to file tickets)

  • (Also in Google item) ICU features to support CLDR: list patterns, index characters, day periods (see tickets in Google section)

  • API access to more CLDR data, especially supplemental (need to file tickets)

Google

• • Modularization

    • Create MessageFormatBase (#7165), use where possible (especially LocaleDisplayNames: #7457), also #7618

    • Find tools to examine dependencies; limit new dependencies between ICU pieces?

  • CLDR

    • data filtering (#7646)

    • ICU features to support CLDR: locale matching (#7512), list patterns (#7516), index characters (#7148, #7511, #7530)

    • postponing day periods (#7150)

    • Index label data from Apple

  • Formatting

    • Add ROUNDING_UNNECESSARY mode. In JDK, need in ICU4C. (#7572)

  • Unicode

    • Spoof detection: various improvements (#7399, #7643, #7645) [M1 - ICU4J matches ICU4C 4.4 ]

    • UTS 46 (IDNA 2008) (#7144) [M1, C++ only]

    • fix line break issues (#7270)

  • C++

    • better C++, internal char * string class (#7496) [M1]

    • try to use real RTTI, stop adding poor man's RTTI APIs (#7455) [M1]

IBM

Note: This is a list of candidate items for ICU 4.8. IBM does not have a list for specific for 4.6. So some of these might be done for 4.6, and others might be done for 4.8.

• • Modulaization

  • Time zone formatter ( IcuBug:6325, IcuBug:7325)

  • API / implementation separation ( IcuBug:7098)

  • Multiple Jars ( IcuBug:7271)

  • ICU4C plug-in (?)

  • Localization packs (eclipse - no ticket)

  • Performance

  • ICU4J resource bundle ( IcuBug:7115, IcuBug:7116, IcuBug:7081?)

  • Time zone parser memory footprint ( IcuBug:6099)

  • Quality

  • Peformance regression tests ( IcuBug:7275)

  • Fix ASCIIsms in tests - may need rethinking of invariant characters for escape sequences ( IcuBug:7502 related to IcuBug:7565 IBM i)

  • C API tool should flag issues when APIs are 'born stable', and should report changes in enums and #defines ( IcuBug:7364 and IcuBug:7388)

  • Restrict ticket checkins ( IcuBug:7589)

  • Others

  • Collation sensitive regular expressions ( IcuBug:6310)

  • Time zone display name list ( IcuBug:7293)

  • Locale service implementation to support territory driven data properly ( IcuBug:6816)

  • StringSearch? J port ( IcuBug:7218)

  • API for data synchronization and age verification ( IcuBug:7365 continyuing IcuBug:5720)

Yahoo

• • Abstract date formats (#7655)