Package com.ibm.icu.text

Interface Summary

Interface	Description
Collator.ReorderCodes	Reordering codes for non-script groups that can be reordered under collation.
DecimalFormat.PropertySetter	Deprecated This API is ICU internal only.
FormattedValue	An abstract formatted value: a string with associated field attributes.
PersonName	An object used to provide name data to the PersonNameFormatter for formatting.
PluralRules.IFixedDecimal	Deprecated This API is ICU internal only.
RbnfLenientScanner	Deprecated ICU 54
RbnfLenientScannerProvider	Deprecated ICU 54
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.
Transform<S,D>	Provide an interface for Transforms that focuses just on the transformation of the text.
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

Class	Description
AlphabeticIndex<V>	AlphabeticIndex supports the creation of a UI index appropriate for a given language.
AlphabeticIndex.Bucket<V>	An index "bucket" with a label string and type.
AlphabeticIndex.ImmutableIndex<V>	Immutable, thread-safe version of AlphabeticIndex.
AlphabeticIndex.Record<V>	A (name, data) pair, to be sorted by name into one of the index buckets.
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.
BidiTransform	Bidi Layout Transformation Engine.
BreakIterator	[icu enhancement] ICU's replacement for java.text.BreakIterator.
CanonicalIterator	This class allows one to iterate through all the strings that are canonically equivalent to a given string.
CaseMap	Low-level case mapping options and methods.
CaseMap.Fold	Case folding options and methods.
CaseMap.Lower	Lowercasing options and methods.
CaseMap.Title	Titlecasing options and methods.
CaseMap.Upper	Uppercasing options and methods.
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	Deprecated ICU 50 Use SimpleDateFormat instead.
ChineseDateFormat.Field	Deprecated ICU 50
ChineseDateFormatSymbols	Deprecated ICU 50
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	[icu enhancement] ICU's replacement for java.text.Collator.
Collator.CollatorFactory	A factory used with registerFactory to register multiple collators and provide display names for them.
CompactDecimalFormat	Formats numbers in compact (abbreviated) notation, like "1.2K" instead of "1200".
ComposedCharIter	Deprecated ICU 2.2
ConstrainedFieldPosition	Represents a span of a string containing a given field.
CurrencyDisplayNames	Returns currency names localized for a locale.
CurrencyMetaInfo	Provides information about currencies that is not specific to a locale.
CurrencyMetaInfo.CurrencyDigits	Represents the raw information about fraction digits and rounding increment.
CurrencyMetaInfo.CurrencyFilter	A filter used to select which currency info is returned.
CurrencyMetaInfo.CurrencyInfo	Represents a complete currency info record listing the region, currency, from and to dates, and priority.
CurrencyPluralInfo	This class represents the information needed by DecimalFormat to format currency plural, such as "3.00 US dollars" or "1.00 US dollar".
DateFormat	[icu enhancement] ICU's replacement for java.text.DateFormat.
DateFormat.Field	The instances of this inner class are used as attribute keys and values in AttributedCharacterIterator that DateFormat.formatToCharacterIterator() method returns.
DateFormatSymbols	[icu enhancement] ICU's replacement for java.text.DateFormatSymbols.
DateIntervalFormat	DateIntervalFormat is a class for formatting and parsing date intervals in a language-independent manner.
DateIntervalFormat.FormattedDateInterval	An immutable class containing the result of a date interval formatting operation.
DateIntervalFormat.SpanField	Class for span fields in FormattedDateInterval.
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 addPattern(...).
DateTimePatternGenerator.VariableField	Deprecated This API is ICU internal only.
DecimalFormat	[icu enhancement] ICU's replacement for java.text.DecimalFormat.
DecimalFormatSymbols	[icu enhancement] ICU's replacement for java.text.DecimalFormatSymbols.
DisplayOptions	Represents all the display options that are supported by CLDR such as grammatical case, noun class, ... etc.
DisplayOptions.Builder	Responsible for building DisplayOptions.
DurationFormat	Deprecated ICU 56 Use MeasureFormat or RelativeDateTimeFormatter instead.
Edits	Records lengths of string edits but not replacement text.
Edits.Iterator	Access to the list of edits.
FilteredBreakIteratorBuilder	The BreakIteratorFilter is used to modify the behavior of a BreakIterator by constructing a new BreakIterator which suppresses certain segment boundaries.
FilteredNormalizer2	Normalization filtered by a UnicodeSet.
IDNA	Abstract base class for IDNA processing.
IDNA.Info	Output container for IDNA processing errors.
ListFormatter	Immutable class for formatting a list, using data from CLDR (or supplied separately).
ListFormatter.Field	Field selectors for format fields defined by ListFormatter.
ListFormatter.FormattedList	An immutable class containing the result of a list formatting operation.
ListFormatter.SpanField	Class for span fields in FormattedList.
LocaleDisplayNames	Returns display names of ULocales and components of ULocales.
LocaleDisplayNames.UiListItem	Struct-like class used to return information for constructing a UI list, each corresponding to a locale.
MeasureFormat	A formatter for Measure objects.
MessageFormat	[icu enhancement] ICU's replacement for java.text.MessageFormat.
MessageFormat.Field	Defines constants that are used as attribute keys in the AttributedCharacterIterator returned from MessageFormat.formatToCharacterIterator.
MessagePattern	Parses and represents ICU MessageFormat patterns.
MessagePattern.Part	A message pattern "part", representing a pattern parsing event.
MessagePatternUtil	Utilities for working with a MessagePattern.
MessagePatternUtil.ArgNode	A piece of MessageNode contents representing a message argument and its details.
MessagePatternUtil.ComplexArgStyleNode	A Node representing details of the argument style of a complex argument.
MessagePatternUtil.MessageContentsNode	A piece of MessageNode contents.
MessagePatternUtil.MessageNode	A Node representing a parsed MessageFormat pattern string.
MessagePatternUtil.Node	Common base class for all elements in a tree of nodes returned by MessagePatternUtil.buildMessageNode(MessagePattern).
MessagePatternUtil.TextNode	Literal text, a piece of MessageNode contents.
MessagePatternUtil.VariantNode	A Node representing a nested message (nested inside an argument) with its selection criterion.
Normalizer	Old Unicode normalization API.
Normalizer.Mode	Deprecated ICU 56 Use Normalizer2 instead.
Normalizer.QuickCheckResult	Result values for quickCheck().
Normalizer2	Unicode normalization functionality for standard Unicode normalization or for using custom mapping tables.
NumberFormat	[icu enhancement] ICU's replacement for java.text.NumberFormat.
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.
NumberingSystem	NumberingSystem is the base class for all number systems.
PersonNameFormatter	A class for formatting names of people.
PersonNameFormatter.Builder	A utility class that can be used to construct a PersonNameFormatter.
PluralFormat	PluralFormat supports the creation of internationalized messages with plural inflection.
PluralRules	Defines rules for mapping non-negative numeric values onto a small set of keywords.
PluralRules.DecimalQuantitySamples	Deprecated This API is ICU internal only.
PluralRules.DecimalQuantitySamplesRange	Deprecated This API is ICU internal only.
PluralRules.Factory	Deprecated This API is ICU internal only.
PluralRules.FixedDecimal	Deprecated This API is ICU internal only.
RawCollationKey	Simple class wrapper to store the internal byte representation of a CollationKey.
RelativeDateTimeFormatter	Formats simple relative dates.
RelativeDateTimeFormatter.Field	Field constants used when accessing field information for relative datetime strings in FormattedValue.
RelativeDateTimeFormatter.FormattedRelativeDateTime	Represents the result of a formatting operation of a relative datetime.
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.
ScientificNumberFormatter	A formatter that formats numbers in user-friendly scientific notation.
SearchIterator	SearchIterator is an abstract base class that provides methods to search for a pattern within a text string.
SelectFormat	SelectFormat supports the creation of internationalized messages by selecting phrases based on keywords.
SimpleDateFormat	[icu enhancement] ICU's replacement for java.text.SimpleDateFormat.
SimpleFormatter	Formats simple patterns like "{1} was born in {0}".
SimplePersonName	A concrete implementation of PersonNameFormatter.PersonName that simply stores the field values in a Map.
SimplePersonName.Builder	A utility class for constructing a SimplePersonName.
SpoofChecker	This class, based on Unicode Technical Report #36 and Unicode Technical Standard #39, has two main functions: Checking whether two strings are visually confusable with each other, such as "desparejado" and "ԁеѕрагејаԁо".
SpoofChecker.Builder	SpoofChecker Builder.
SpoofChecker.CheckResult	A struct-like class to hold the results of a Spoof Check operation.
StringCharacterIterator	Deprecated ICU 2.4.
StringPrep	StringPrep API implements the StingPrep framework as described by RFC 3454.
StringSearch	StringSearch is a SearchIterator that provides language-sensitive text searching based on the comparison rules defined in a RuleBasedCollator object.
TimeUnitFormat	Deprecated ICU 53 use MeasureFormat instead.
TimeZoneFormat	TimeZoneFormat supports time zone display name formatting and parsing.
TimeZoneNames	TimeZoneNames is an abstract class representing the time zone display name data model defined by UTS#35 Unicode Locale Data Markup Language (LDML).
TimeZoneNames.Factory	Deprecated This API is ICU internal only.
TimeZoneNames.MatchInfo	A MatchInfo represents a time zone name match used by TimeZoneNames.find(CharSequence, int, EnumSet).
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.
UFieldPosition	Deprecated This API is ICU internal only.
UFormat	An abstract class that extends Format to provide additional ICU protocol, specifically, the getLocale() API.
UFormat.SpanField	A field that represents a span of text that may be composed with other fields.
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.EntryRange	A struct-like class used for iteration through ranges, for faster iteration than by String.
UnicodeSet.XSymbolTable	Internal class for customizing UnicodeSet parsing of properties.
UnicodeSetIterator	UnicodeSetIterator iterates over the contents of a UnicodeSet.
UnicodeSetSpanner	A helper class used to count, replace, and trim CharSequences based on UnicodeSet matches.
UTF16	Standalone utility class providing UTF16 character conversions and indexing conversions.
UTF16.StringComparator	UTF16 string comparator class.

Enum Summary

Enum	Description
AlphabeticIndex.Bucket.LabelType	Type of the label
BidiTransform.Mirroring	BidiTransform.Mirroring indicates whether or not characters with the "mirrored" property in RTL runs should be replaced with their mirror-image counterparts.
BidiTransform.Order	BidiTransform.Order indicates the order of text.
CompactDecimalFormat.CompactStyle	Style parameter for CompactDecimalFormat.
DateFormat.BooleanAttribute	boolean attributes
DateFormat.HourCycle	Hour Cycle
DateTimePatternGenerator.DisplayWidth	Field display name width constants for getFieldDisplayName
DisplayContext	Display context settings.
DisplayContext.Type	Type values for DisplayContext
DisplayOptions.Capitalization	Represents all the capitalization options.
DisplayOptions.DisplayLength	Represents all the display lengths.
DisplayOptions.GrammaticalCase	Represents all the grammatical cases that are supported by CLDR.
DisplayOptions.NameStyle	Represents all the name styles.
DisplayOptions.NounClass	Represents all the grammatical noun classes that are supported by CLDR.
DisplayOptions.PluralCategory	Standard CLDR plural category constants.
DisplayOptions.SubstituteHandling	Represents all the substitute handlings.
IDNA.Error	IDNA error bit set values.
ListFormatter.Type	Type of meaning expressed by the list.
ListFormatter.Width	Verbosity level of the list patterns.
LocaleDisplayNames.DialectHandling	Enum used in LocaleDisplayNames.getInstance(ULocale, DialectHandling).
MeasureFormat.FormatWidth	Formatting width enum.
MessagePattern.ApostropheMode	Mode for when an apostrophe starts quoted literal text for MessageFormat output.
MessagePattern.ArgType	Argument type constants.
MessagePattern.Part.Type	Part type constants.
MessagePatternUtil.MessageContentsNode.Type	The type of a piece of MessageNode contents.
Normalizer2.Mode	Constants for normalization modes.
PersonName.FieldModifier	Identifiers for the name field modifiers supported by the PersonName and PersonNameFormatter objects.
PersonName.NameField	Identifiers for the name fields supported by the PersonName object.
PersonName.PreferredOrder	An enum to specify the preferred field order for the name.
PersonNameFormatter.DisplayOrder	An enum indicating the desired display order for a formatted name.
PersonNameFormatter.Formality	Specifies the intended formality of the formatted name.
PersonNameFormatter.Length	Specifies the desired length of the formatted name.
PersonNameFormatter.Usage	Specifies the intended usage of the formatted name.
PluralRules.KeywordStatus	Status of the keyword for the rules, given a set of explicit values.
PluralRules.Operand	Deprecated This API is ICU internal only.
PluralRules.PluralType	Type of plurals and PluralRules.
PluralRules.SampleType	Deprecated This API is ICU internal only.
RelativeDateTimeFormatter.AbsoluteUnit	Represents an absolute unit.
RelativeDateTimeFormatter.Direction	Represents a direction for an absolute unit e.g "Next Tuesday" or "Last Tuesday"
RelativeDateTimeFormatter.RelativeDateTimeUnit	Represents the unit for formatting a relative date. e.g "in 5 days" or "next year"
RelativeDateTimeFormatter.RelativeUnit	Represents the unit for formatting a relative date. e.g "in 5 days" or "in 3 months"
RelativeDateTimeFormatter.Style	The formatting style
SearchIterator.ElementComparisonType	Option to control how collation elements are compared.
SpoofChecker.RestrictionLevel	Constants from UTS 39 for use in setRestrictionLevel.
TimeZoneFormat.GMTOffsetPatternType	Offset pattern type enum.
TimeZoneFormat.ParseOption	Parse option enum, used for specifying optional parse behavior.
TimeZoneFormat.Style	Time zone display format style enum used by format/parse APIs in TimeZoneFormat.
TimeZoneFormat.TimeType	Time type enum used for receiving time type (standard time, daylight time or unknown) in TimeZoneFormat APIs.
TimeZoneNames.NameType	Time zone display name types
UnicodeSet.ComparisonStyle	Comparison style enums used by UnicodeSet.compareTo(UnicodeSet, ComparisonStyle).
UnicodeSet.SpanCondition	Argument values for whether span() and similar functions continue while the current character is contained vs.
UnicodeSetSpanner.CountMethod	Options for replaceFrom and countIn to control how to treat each matched span.
UnicodeSetSpanner.TrimOption	Options for the trim() method

Exception Summary

Exception	Description
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.