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<p>Filesystem file and path separator characters. </p>
<p>Example: '/' and ':' on Unix, '\' and ';' on Windows. </p><dl class="stable"><dt><b><a class="el" href="stable.html#_stable000480">Stable:</a></b></dt><dd>ICU 2.0 </dd></dl>
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<p>Definition at line <a class="el" href="putil_8h_source.html#l00130">130</a> of file <a class="el" href="putil_8h_source.html">putil.h</a>.</p>
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<p>Definition at line <a class="el" href="putil_8h_source.html#l00133">133</a> of file <a class="el" href="putil_8h_source.html">putil.h</a>.</p>
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<p>Filesystem file and path separator characters. </p>
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<p>Definition at line <a class="el" href="putil_8h_source.html#l00135">135</a> of file <a class="el" href="putil_8h_source.html">putil.h</a>.</p>
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<p>Convert char characters to UChar characters. </p>
<p>This utility function is useful only for "invariant characters" that are encoded in the platform default encoding. They are a small, constant subset of the encoding and include just the latin letters, digits, and some punctuation. For details, see U_CHARSET_FAMILY.</p>
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<p>Platform utilities isolates the platform dependencies of the libarary. </p>
<p>For each platform which this code is ported to, these functions may have to be re-implemented. Return the ICU data directory. The data directory is where common format ICU data files (.dat files) are loaded from. Note that normal use of the built-in ICU facilities does not require loading of an external data file; unless you are adding custom data to ICU, the data directory does not need to be set.</p>
<p>The data directory is determined as follows: If <a class="el" href="putil_8h.html#ab03241e29fc619a4b3f7737e98aa08ef" title="Set the ICU data directory. ">u_setDataDirectory()</a> has been called, that is it, otherwise if the ICU_DATA environment variable is set, use that, otherwise If a data directory was specifed at ICU build time <code> </p><div class="fragment"><div class="line"><a name="l00001"></a><span class="lineno"> 1</span> #define ICU_DATA_DIR "path" </div></div><!-- fragment --><p> </code> use that, otherwise no data directory is available.</p>
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<p>Return the time zone files override directory, or an empty string if no directory was specified. </p>
<p>Certain time zone resources will be preferrentially loaded from individual files in this directory.</p>
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<p>Set the ICU data directory. </p>
<p>The data directory is where common format ICU data files (.dat files) are loaded from. Note that normal use of the built-in ICU facilities does not require loading of an external data file; unless you are adding custom data to ICU, the data directory does not need to be set.</p>
<p>This function should be called at most once in a process, before the first ICU operation (e.g., <a class="el" href="uclean_8h.html#ab6a4215b45b2162889aa1ff01e491d4c" title="Initialize ICU. ">u_init()</a>) that will require the loading of an ICU data file. This function is not thread-safe. Use it before calling ICU APIs from multiple threads.</p>
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<p>Set the time zone files override directory. </p>
<p>This function is not thread safe; it must not be called concurrently with <a class="el" href="putil_8h.html#af6eac5e399d3800511d01e4d16b98e7d" title="Return the time zone files override directory, or an empty string if no directory was specified...">u_getTimeZoneFilesDirectory()</a> or any other use of ICU time zone functions. This function should only be called before using any ICU service that will access the time zone data. </p><dl class="internal"><dt><b><a class="el" href="internal.html#_internal000092">Internal:</a></b></dt><dd>Do not use. This API is for internal use only. </dd></dl>
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<p>Convert UChar characters to char characters. </p>
<p>This utility function is useful only for "invariant characters" that can be encoded in the platform default encoding. They are a small, constant subset of the encoding and include just the latin letters, digits, and some punctuation. For details, see U_CHARSET_FAMILY.</p>
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