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| <h1>Text Boundaries -- BreakIterator</h1> |
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| <p><big><big>Break Iterator also provides a C language API.</big></big> |
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| <li><font size="6">Line boundaries</font><br> |
| <font size="5">-- used for line-wrapping</font> <br> |
| <font size="5">-- correctly handles punctuation and hyphenated words.</font> </li> |
| <li><font size="6">Sentence boundaries</font><br> |
| <font size="5">-- handles periods within numbers and abbreviations</font> <br> |
| <font size="5">-- handles trailing punctuation marks such as parentheses.</font> </li> |
| <li><font size="6">Word boundaries</font><br> |
| <font size="5">-- for search and replace functions</font> <br> |
| <font size="5">-- for selecting words with a double mouse click</font> </li> |
| <li><font size="6">Character boundaries</font><br> |
| <font size="5">-- handles combining characters</font></li> |
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| <p><a href="../readme.html#API">ReadMe for IBM's International Classes for Unicode, API |
| Overview</a></p> |
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