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Nearly all programs with user interfaces manipulate text. In an international market, the text your programs display must conform to the rules of languages from around the world. The Java programming language provides a number of classes that help you handle text in a locale-independent manner.Checking Character Properties
This section shows you how to use theCharacter
comparison methods to check character properties for all major languages.Comparing Strings
In this section you'll learn how to create locale-independent string comparisons with theCollator
class.Detecting Text Boundaries
This section shows how to detect character, word, sentence, and line boundaries with theBreakIterator
class.Converting Non-Unicode Text
Different computer systems around the world store text in a variety of encoding schemes. This section describes the classes that help you convert text between Unicode and other encodings.
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