Description:

The International Components for Unicode (ICU) library provides robust
and full-featured Unicode services on a wide variety of platforms. ICU
supports the most current version of the Unicode standard, and
provides support for supplementary characters (needed for GB 18030
repertoire support).

Java provides a very strong foundation for global programs, and IBM
and the ICU team played a key role in providing globalization
technology into Sun's Java. But because of its long release schedule,
Java cannot always keep up-to-date with evolving standards. The ICU
team continues to extend Java's Unicode and internationalization
support, focusing on improving performance, keeping current with the
Unicode standard, and providing richer APIs, while remaining as
compatible as possible with the original Java text and
internationalization API design.