Re: [icu-support] [icu_support]how to customize the data for icu4j?

[Mark D. <mar...@ic...>]

I want to reinforce what Ram said. Changing the fundamental Unicode
properties is very strongly discouraged. ICU and other programs are built on
the basis of those properties, and changing them just opens the way for
strange, intermittent bugs, and incompatibilities with other programs.

Mark

On 12/27/06, Ram Viswanadha <ram...@gm...> wrote:
>
> Hi Tony,
>
> On 12/27/06, Tony Wu <wuy...@gm...> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I have another question here. I noticed that the data files were
> > combined to a .dat file in the version 3.4 other than previous.
>
>
> I do not understand this statement.
>
> I wonder whether my change in the source/data/unidata/UnicodeData.txt
> > will affect the output data? That is, if I change a defination of
> > 0x0000 in the .txt file, would it be changed in the distribution?
>
>
> Please be informed that it is not recommended that you change the
> definitions of code points in UnicodeData.txt file. If you changed
> definitions in UnicodeData.txt and then ran gendtjar.pl, then yes the
> changes are taken transferred to data files generated and hence
> icudata.jar. If you change the data then please make sure to change the
> manifest.stub files to reflect that fact that you have modified icu4j.jar.
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Ram Viswanadha
> ICU
>
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Mark