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Overview

The global Internet demands global software; that is, software that can be developed independently of the countries or languages of its users, and then localized for multiple countries or regions. JDK 1.1 provides a rich set of Internationalization APIs for developing global applications. These APIs are based on the Unicode 2.0 character encoding and include the ability to adapt text, numbers, dates, currency, and user-defined objects to any country's conventions.

The Internationalization APIs are concentrated in three packages. The java.text package is new for JDK 1.1 and contains classes and interfaces for handling text in a locale sensitive way. The java.io package contains new classes for importing and exporting non-Unicode character data. The java.util package contains the Locale class and the localization support classes as well as new classes for date and time handling. Some additions and corrections have also been made to classes outside these three packages.

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