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icu Namespace Reference

File coll.h. More...

## Namespaces
| NoUnit
| Dimensionless unit for percent and permille.

## Data Structures
class | Appendable
| Base class for objects to which Unicode characters and strings can be appended. More...
class | UnicodeStringAppendable
| An Appendable implementation which writes to a UnicodeString. More...
class | BreakIterator
| The BreakIterator class implements methods for finding the location of boundaries in text. More...
class | ByteSink
| A ByteSink can be filled with bytes. More...
class | CheckedArrayByteSink
| Implementation of ByteSink that writes to a flat byte array, with bounds-checking: This sink will not write more than capacity bytes to outbuf. More...
class | StringByteSink
| Implementation of ByteSink that writes to a "string". More...
class | BytesTrie
| Light-weight, non-const reader class for a BytesTrie. More...
class | BytesTrieBuilder
| Builder class for BytesTrie. More...
class | CanonicalIterator
| This class allows one to iterate through all the strings that are canonically equivalent to a given string. More...
class | CaseMap
| Low-level C++ case mapping functions. More...
class | Char16Ptr
| char16_t * wrapper with implicit conversion from distinct but bit-compatible pointer types. More...
class | ConstChar16Ptr
| const char16_t * wrapper with implicit conversion from distinct but bit-compatible pointer types. More...
class | ForwardCharacterIterator
| Abstract class that defines an API for forward-only iteration on text objects. More...
class | CharacterIterator
| Abstract class that defines an API for iteration on text objects. More...
class | DateInterval
| This class represents a date interval. More...
class | Edits
| Records lengths of string edits but not replacement text. More...
class | ErrorCode
| Wrapper class for UErrorCode, with conversion operators for direct use in ICU C and C++ APIs. More...
class | FilteredBreakIteratorBuilder
| The BreakIteratorFilter is used to modify the behavior of a BreakIterator by constructing a new BreakIterator which suppresses certain segment boundaries. More...
class | IDNA
| Abstract base class for IDNA processing. More...
class | IDNAInfo
| Output container for IDNA processing errors. More...
class | LocaleBuilder
| `LocaleBuilder` is used to build instances of `Locale` from values configured by the setters. More...
class | LocaleMatcher
| Immutable class that picks the best match between a user's desired locales and an application's supported locales. More...
class | LocalPointerBase
| "Smart pointer" base class; do not use directly: use LocalPointer etc. More...
class | LocalPointer
| "Smart pointer" class, deletes objects via the standard C++ delete operator. More...
class | LocalArray
| "Smart pointer" class, deletes objects via the C++ array delete[] operator. More...
class | LocaleDisplayNames
| Returns display names of Locales and components of Locales. More...
class | Locale
| A `Locale` object represents a specific geographical, political, or cultural region. More...
class | MessagePattern
| Parses and represents ICU MessageFormat patterns. More...
class | Normalizer2
| Unicode normalization functionality for standard Unicode normalization or for using custom mapping tables. More...
class | FilteredNormalizer2
| Normalization filtered by a UnicodeSet. More...
class | Normalizer
| Old Unicode normalization API. More...
class | ParsePosition
| `ParsePosition` is a simple class used by `Format` and its subclasses to keep track of the current position during parsing. More...
class | ExternalBreakEngine
| The ExternalBreakEngine class define an abstract interface for the host environment to provide a low level facility to break text for unicode text in script that the text boundary cannot be handled by upper level rule based logic, for example, for Chinese and Japanese word breaking, Thai, Khmer, Burmese, Lao and other Southeast Asian scripts. More...
class | RuleBasedBreakIterator
| A subclass of BreakIterator whose behavior is specified using a list of rules. More...
class | Replaceable
| `Replaceable` is an abstract base class representing a string of characters that supports the replacement of a range of itself with a new string of characters. More...
class | ResourceBundle
| A class representing a collection of resource information pertaining to a given locale. More...
class | StringCharacterIterator
| A concrete subclass of CharacterIterator that iterates over the characters (code units or code points) in a UnicodeString. More...
class | SimpleFormatter
| Formats simple patterns like "{1} was born in {0}". More...
class | StringEnumeration
| Base class for 'pure' C++ implementations of uenum api. More...
class | StringPiece
| A string-like object that points to a sized piece of memory. More...
class | SymbolTable
| An interface that defines both lookup protocol and parsing of symbolic names. More...
class | UCharsTrie
| Light-weight, non-const reader class for a UCharsTrie. More...
class | UCharsTrieBuilder
| Builder class for UCharsTrie. More...
class | UCharCharacterIterator
| A concrete subclass of CharacterIterator that iterates over the characters (code units or code points) in a char16_t array. More...
class | UnicodeFilter
| `UnicodeFilter` defines a protocol for selecting a subset of the full range (U+0000 to U+10FFFF) of Unicode characters. More...
class | UnicodeFunctor
| `UnicodeFunctor` is an abstract base class for objects that perform match and/or replace operations on Unicode strings. More...
class | UnicodeMatcher
| `UnicodeMatcher` defines a protocol for objects that can match a range of characters in a Replaceable string. More...
class | UnicodeSet
| A mutable set of Unicode characters and multicharacter strings. More...
class | UnicodeString
| UnicodeString is a string class that stores Unicode characters directly and provides similar functionality as the Java String and StringBuffer/StringBuilder classes. More...
class | UMemory
| UMemory is the common ICU base class. More...
class | UObject
| UObject is the common ICU "boilerplate" class. More...
class | UnicodeSetIterator
| UnicodeSetIterator iterates over the contents of a UnicodeSet. More...
class | AlphabeticIndex
| AlphabeticIndex supports the creation of a UI index appropriate for a given language. More...
class | BasicTimeZone
| `BasicTimeZone` is an abstract class extending `TimeZone`. More...
class | Calendar
| `Calendar` is an abstract base class for converting between a `UDate` object and a set of integer fields such as `YEAR`, `MONTH`, `DAY`, `HOUR`, and so on. More...
class | ChoiceFormat
| ChoiceFormat converts between ranges of numeric values and strings for those ranges. More...
class | CollationElementIterator
| The CollationElementIterator class is used as an iterator to walk through each character of an international string. More...
class | Collator
| The `Collator` class performs locale-sensitive string comparison. More...
class | CollatorFactory
| A factory, used with registerFactory, the creates multiple collators and provides display names for them. More...
class | CompactDecimalFormat
| IMPORTANT: New users are strongly encouraged to see if numberformatter.h fits their use case. More...
class | CurrencyAmount
| A currency together with a numeric amount, such as 200 USD. More...
class | CurrencyPluralInfo
| This class represents the information needed by DecimalFormat to format currency plural, such as "3.00 US dollars" or "1.00 US dollar". More...
class | CurrencyUnit
| A unit of currency, such as USD (U.S. More...
class | DateFormat
| DateFormat is an abstract class for a family of classes that convert dates and times from their internal representations to textual form and back again in a language-independent manner. More...
class | DecimalFormatSymbols
| This class represents the set of symbols needed by DecimalFormat to format numbers. More...
class | DecimalFormat
| IMPORTANT: New users are strongly encouraged to see if numberformatter.h fits their use case. More...
class | DisplayOptions
| Represents all the display options that are supported by CLDR such as grammatical case, noun class, ... More...
class | DateFormatSymbols
| DateFormatSymbols is a public class for encapsulating localizable date-time formatting data – including timezone data. More...
class | FormattedDateInterval
| An immutable class containing the result of a date interval formatting operation. More...
class | DateIntervalFormat
| DateIntervalFormat is a class for formatting and parsing date intervals in a language-independent manner. More...
class | DateIntervalInfo
| DateIntervalInfo is a public class for encapsulating localizable date time interval patterns. More...
class | DateTimePatternGenerator
| This class provides flexible generation of date format patterns, like "yy-MM-dd". More...
class | DateTimeRule
| `DateTimeRule` is a class representing a time in a year by a rule specified by month, day of month, day of week and time in the day. More...
class | FieldPosition
| `FieldPosition` is a simple class used by `Format` and its subclasses to identify fields in formatted output. More...
class | Formattable
| Formattable objects can be passed to the Format class or its subclasses for formatting. More...
class | Format
| Base class for all formats. More...
class | ConstrainedFieldPosition
| Represents a span of a string containing a given field. More...
class | FormattedValue
| An abstract formatted value: a string with associated field attributes. More...
class | FieldPositionIterator
| FieldPositionIterator returns the field ids and their start/limit positions generated by a call to Format::format. More...
class | GenderInfo
| GenderInfo computes the gender of a list as a whole given the gender of each element. More...
class | GregorianCalendar
| Concrete class which provides the standard calendar used by most of the world. More...
class | FormattedList
| An immutable class containing the result of a list formatting operation. More...
class | ListFormatter
| An immutable class for formatting a list, using data from CLDR (or supplied separately). More...
class | MeasureFormat
class | MeasureUnit
| A unit such as length, mass, volume, currency, etc. More...
class | Measure
| An amount of a specified unit, consisting of a number and a Unit. More...
class | MessageFormat
class | NumberFormat
class | NumberFormatFactory
| A NumberFormatFactory is used to register new number formats. More...
class | SimpleNumberFormatFactory
| A NumberFormatFactory that supports a single locale. More...
class | NumberingSystem
| Defines numbering systems. More...
class | PluralFormat
class | PluralRules
| Defines rules for mapping non-negative numeric values onto a small set of keywords. More...
class | RuleBasedNumberFormat
| The RuleBasedNumberFormat class formats numbers according to a set of rules. More...
class | RuleBasedTimeZone
| a BasicTimeZone subclass implemented in terms of InitialTimeZoneRule and TimeZoneRule instances More...
class | RegexPattern
| Class `RegexPattern` represents a compiled regular expression. More...
class | RegexMatcher
| class RegexMatcher bundles together a regular expression pattern and input text to which the expression can be applied. More...
class | Region
| `Region` is the class representing a Unicode Region Code, also known as a Unicode Region Subtag, which is defined based upon the BCP 47 standard. More...
class | FormattedRelativeDateTime
| An immutable class containing the result of a relative datetime formatting operation. More...
class | RelativeDateTimeFormatter
| Formats simple relative dates. More...
class | ScientificNumberFormatter
| A formatter that formats numbers in user-friendly scientific notation. More...
class | SearchIterator
| `SearchIterator` is an abstract base class that provides methods to search for a pattern within a text string. More...
class | SelectFormat
class | SimpleTimeZone
| `SimpleTimeZone` is a concrete subclass of `TimeZone` that represents a time zone for use with a Gregorian calendar. More...
class | SimpleDateFormat
| SimpleDateFormat is a concrete class for formatting and parsing dates in a language-independent manner. More...
class | CollationKey
| Collation keys are generated by the Collator class. More...
class | StringSearch
| `StringSearch` is a `SearchIterator` that provides language-sensitive text searching based on the comparison rules defined in a RuleBasedCollator object. More...
class | RuleBasedCollator
| The RuleBasedCollator class provides the implementation of Collator, using data-driven tables. More...
class | TimeZone
| `TimeZone` represents a time zone offset, and also figures out daylight savings. More...
class | TimeUnit
| Measurement unit for time units. More...
class | TimeUnitAmount
| Express a duration as a time unit and number. More...
class | TimeUnitFormat
| Format or parse a TimeUnitAmount, using plural rules for the units where available. More...
class | Transliterator
| `Transliterator` is an abstract class that transliterates text from one format to another. More...
class | TimeZoneFormat
| `TimeZoneFormat` supports time zone display name formatting and parsing. More...
class | TimeZoneNames
| `TimeZoneNames` is an abstract class representing the time zone display name data model defined by UTS#35 Unicode Locale Data Markup Language (LDML). More...
class | TimeZoneRule
| `TimeZoneRule` is a class representing a rule for time zone. More...
class | InitialTimeZoneRule
| `InitialTimeZoneRule` represents a time zone rule representing a time zone effective from the beginning and has no actual start times. More...
class | AnnualTimeZoneRule
| `AnnualTimeZoneRule` is a class used for representing a time zone rule which takes effect annually. More...
class | TimeArrayTimeZoneRule
| `TimeArrayTimeZoneRule` represents a time zone rule whose start times are defined by an array of milliseconds since the standard base time. More...
class | TimeZoneTransition
| `TimeZoneTransition` is a class representing a time zone transition. More...
class | UnicodeReplacer
| `UnicodeReplacer` defines a protocol for objects that replace a range of characters in a Replaceable string with output text. More...
class | VTimeZone
| `VTimeZone` is a class implementing RFC2445 VTIMEZONE. More...
class | ParagraphLayout
| ParagraphLayout. More...
class | RunArray
| The `RunArray` class is a base class for building classes which represent data that is associated with runs of text. More...
class | FontRuns
| The `FontRuns` class associates pointers to `LEFontInstance` objects with runs of text. More...
class | LocaleRuns
| The `LocaleRuns` class associates pointers to `Locale` objects with runs of text. More...
class | ValueRuns
| The `ValueRuns` class associates integer values with runs of text. More...

## Typedefs
typedef RuleBasedBreakIterator | DictionaryBasedBreakIterator
| An obsolete subclass of RuleBasedBreakIterator. More...
typedef int32_t | UFieldResolutionTable[12][8]
typedef enum icu::UMeasurePrefix | UMeasurePrefix
| Enumeration for SI and binary prefixes, e.g. More...

## Enumerations
enum | UMatchDegree { U_MISMATCH , U_PARTIAL_MATCH , U_MATCH }
| Constants returned by `UnicodeMatcher::matches()` indicating the degree of match. More...
enum | UMeasureUnitComplexity { UMEASURE_UNIT_SINGLE , UMEASURE_UNIT_COMPOUND , UMEASURE_UNIT_MIXED }
| Enumeration for unit complexity. More...
enum | UMeasurePrefix { UMEASURE_PREFIX_ONE = 30 + 0 , UMEASURE_PREFIX_YOTTA = UMEASURE_PREFIX_ONE + 24 , UMEASURE_PREFIX_RONNA = UMEASURE_PREFIX_ONE + 27 , UMEASURE_PREFIX_QUETTA = UMEASURE_PREFIX_ONE + 30 , UMEASURE_PREFIX_INTERNAL_MAX_SI = UMEASURE_PREFIX_QUETTA , UMEASURE_PREFIX_ZETTA = UMEASURE_PREFIX_ONE + 21 , UMEASURE_PREFIX_EXA = UMEASURE_PREFIX_ONE + 18 , UMEASURE_PREFIX_PETA = UMEASURE_PREFIX_ONE + 15 , UMEASURE_PREFIX_TERA = UMEASURE_PREFIX_ONE + 12 , UMEASURE_PREFIX_GIGA = UMEASURE_PREFIX_ONE + 9 , UMEASURE_PREFIX_MEGA = UMEASURE_PREFIX_ONE + 6 , UMEASURE_PREFIX_KILO = UMEASURE_PREFIX_ONE + 3 , UMEASURE_PREFIX_HECTO = UMEASURE_PREFIX_ONE + 2 , UMEASURE_PREFIX_DEKA = UMEASURE_PREFIX_ONE + 1 , UMEASURE_PREFIX_DECI = UMEASURE_PREFIX_ONE + -1 , UMEASURE_PREFIX_CENTI = UMEASURE_PREFIX_ONE + -2 , UMEASURE_PREFIX_MILLI = UMEASURE_PREFIX_ONE + -3 , UMEASURE_PREFIX_MICRO = UMEASURE_PREFIX_ONE + -6 , UMEASURE_PREFIX_NANO = UMEASURE_PREFIX_ONE + -9 , UMEASURE_PREFIX_PICO = UMEASURE_PREFIX_ONE + -12 , UMEASURE_PREFIX_FEMTO = UMEASURE_PREFIX_ONE + -15 , UMEASURE_PREFIX_ATTO = UMEASURE_PREFIX_ONE + -18 , UMEASURE_PREFIX_ZEPTO = UMEASURE_PREFIX_ONE + -21 , UMEASURE_PREFIX_YOCTO = UMEASURE_PREFIX_ONE + -24 , UMEASURE_PREFIX_RONTO = UMEASURE_PREFIX_ONE + -27 , UMEASURE_PREFIX_QUECTO = UMEASURE_PREFIX_ONE + -30 , UMEASURE_PREFIX_INTERNAL_MIN_SI = UMEASURE_PREFIX_QUECTO , UMEASURE_PREFIX_INTERNAL_ONE_BIN = -60 , UMEASURE_PREFIX_KIBI = UMEASURE_PREFIX_INTERNAL_ONE_BIN + 1 , UMEASURE_PREFIX_INTERNAL_MIN_BIN = UMEASURE_PREFIX_KIBI , UMEASURE_PREFIX_MEBI = UMEASURE_PREFIX_INTERNAL_ONE_BIN + 2 , UMEASURE_PREFIX_GIBI = UMEASURE_PREFIX_INTERNAL_ONE_BIN + 3 , UMEASURE_PREFIX_TEBI = UMEASURE_PREFIX_INTERNAL_ONE_BIN + 4 , UMEASURE_PREFIX_PEBI = UMEASURE_PREFIX_INTERNAL_ONE_BIN + 5 , UMEASURE_PREFIX_EXBI = UMEASURE_PREFIX_INTERNAL_ONE_BIN + 6 , UMEASURE_PREFIX_ZEBI = UMEASURE_PREFIX_INTERNAL_ONE_BIN + 7 , UMEASURE_PREFIX_YOBI = UMEASURE_PREFIX_INTERNAL_ONE_BIN + 8 , UMEASURE_PREFIX_INTERNAL_MAX_BIN = UMEASURE_PREFIX_YOBI }
| Enumeration for SI and binary prefixes, e.g. More...
enum | URBNFRuleSetTag { URBNF_SPELLOUT , URBNF_ORDINAL , URBNF_DURATION , URBNF_NUMBERING_SYSTEM = 3 , URBNF_COUNT }
| Tags for the predefined rulesets. More...

## Functions
const UChar * | toUCharPtr (const char16_t *p)
| Converts from const char16_t * to const UChar *. More...
UChar * | toUCharPtr (char16_t *p)
| Converts from char16_t * to UChar *. More...
const OldUChar * | toOldUCharPtr (const char16_t *p)
| Converts from const char16_t * to const OldUChar *. More...
OldUChar * | toOldUCharPtr (char16_t *p)
| Converts from char16_t * to OldUChar *. More...
void | locale_available_init ()
U_EXPORT UBool | operator== (const StringPiece &x, const StringPiece &y)
| Global operator == for StringPiece. More...
bool | operator!= (const StringPiece &x, const StringPiece &y)
| Global operator != for StringPiece. More...
U_COMMON_API UnicodeString | operator+ (const UnicodeString &s1, const UnicodeString &s2)
| Create a new UnicodeString with the concatenation of two others. More...
UnicodeString | ures_getUnicodeString (const UResourceBundle *resB, UErrorCode *status)
| Returns the string value from a string resource bundle. More...
UnicodeString | ures_getNextUnicodeString (UResourceBundle *resB, const char **key, UErrorCode *status)
| Returns the next string in a resource, or an empty string if there are no more resources to iterate over. More...
UnicodeString | ures_getUnicodeStringByIndex (const UResourceBundle *resB, int32_t indexS, UErrorCode *status)
| Returns the string in a given resource array or table at the specified index. More...
UnicodeString | ures_getUnicodeStringByKey (const UResourceBundle *resB, const char *key, UErrorCode *status)
| Returns a string in a resource that has a given key. More...
void | GenderInfo_initCache (UErrorCode &status)
U_CAPI int32_t | umeas_getPrefixBase (UMeasurePrefix unitPrefix)
| Returns the base of the factor associated with the given unit prefix: the base is 10 for SI prefixes (kilo, micro) and 1024 for binary prefixes (kibi, mebi). More...
U_CAPI int32_t | umeas_getPrefixPower (UMeasurePrefix unitPrefix)
| Returns the exponent of the factor associated with the given unit prefix, for example 3 for kilo, -6 for micro, 1 for kibi, 2 for mebi, 3 for gibi. More...
U_IO_API std::ostream & | operator<< (std::ostream &stream, const UnicodeString &s)
| Write the contents of a UnicodeString to a C++ ostream. More...
U_IO_API std::istream & | operator>> (std::istream &stream, UnicodeString &s)
| Write the contents from a C++ istream to a UnicodeString. More...

## Variables
constexpr const size_t | kInternalNumSysNameCapacity = 8
| Size of a numbering system name. More...

## Detailed Description

File coll.h.

File tblcoll.h.

Created by: Helena Shih

Modification History:

Date Name Description 02/5/97 aliu Modified createDefault to load collation data from binary files when possible. Added related methods createCollationFromFile, chopLocale, createPathName. 02/11/97 aliu Added members addToCache, findInCache, and fgCache. 02/12/97 aliu Modified to create objects from RuleBasedCollator cache. Moved cache out of Collation class. 02/13/97 aliu Moved several methods out of this class and into RuleBasedCollator, with modifications. Modified createDefault() to call new RuleBasedCollator(Locale&) constructor. General clean up and documentation. 02/20/97 helena Added clone, operator==, operator!=, operator=, copy constructor and getDynamicClassID. 03/25/97 helena Updated with platform independent data types. 05/06/97 helena Added memory allocation error detection. 06/20/97 helena Java class name change. 09/03/97 helena Added createCollationKeyValues(). 02/10/98 damiba Added compare() with length as parameter. 04/23/99 stephen Removed EDecompositionMode, merged with Normalizer::EMode. 11/02/99 helena Collator performance enhancements. Eliminates the UnicodeString construction and special case for NO_OP. 11/23/99 srl More performance enhancements. Inlining of critical accessors. 05/15/00 helena Added version information API. 01/29/01 synwee Modified into a C++ wrapper which calls C apis (ucol.h). 2012-2014 markus Rewritten in C++ again.

Created by: Helena Shih

Modification History:

Date Name Description 2/5/97 aliu Added streamIn and streamOut methods. Added constructor which reads RuleBasedCollator object from a binary file. Added writeToFile method which streams RuleBasedCollator out to a binary file. The streamIn and streamOut methods use istream and ostream objects in binary mode. 2/12/97 aliu Modified to use TableCollationData sub-object to hold invariant data. 2/13/97 aliu Moved several methods into this class from Collation. Added a private RuleBasedCollator(Locale&) constructor, to be used by Collator::createDefault(). General clean up. 2/20/97 helena Added clone, operator==, operator!=, operator=, and copy constructor and getDynamicClassID. 3/5/97 aliu Modified constructFromFile() to add parameter specifying whether or not binary loading is to be attempted. This is required for dynamic rule loading. 05/07/97 helena Added memory allocation error detection. 6/17/97 helena Added IDENTICAL strength for compare, changed getRules to use MergeCollation::getPattern. 6/20/97 helena Java class name change. 8/18/97 helena Added internal API documentation. 09/03/97 helena Added createCollationKeyValues(). 02/10/98 damiba Added compare with "length" parameter 08/05/98 erm Synched with 1.2 version of RuleBasedCollator.java 04/23/99 stephen Removed EDecompositionMode, merged with Normalizer::EMode 06/14/99 stephen Removed kResourceBundleSuffix 11/02/99 helena Collator performance enhancements. Eliminates the UnicodeString construction and special case for NO_OP. 11/23/99 srl More performance enhancements. Updates to NormalizerIterator internal state management. 12/15/99 aliu Update to support Thai collation. Move NormalizerIterator to implementation file. 01/29/01 synwee Modified into a C++ wrapper which calls C API (ucol.h) 2012-2014 markus Rewritten in C++ again.

## Typedef Documentation

## ◆ DictionaryBasedBreakIterator

typedef RuleBasedBreakIterator icu::DictionaryBasedBreakIterator

An obsolete subclass of RuleBasedBreakIterator.

Handling of dictionary- based break iteration has been folded into the base class. This class is deprecated as of ICU 3.6.

Deprecated:
  ICU 3.6

Definition at line 38 of file dbbi.h.

## ◆ UFieldResolutionTable

typedef int32_t icu::UFieldResolutionTable[12][8]

Internal:
  Do not use.

This API is for internal use only.

Definition at line 55 of file calendar.h.

## ◆ UMeasurePrefix

typedef enum icu::UMeasurePrefix icu::UMeasurePrefix

Enumeration for SI and binary prefixes, e.g.

"kilo-", "nano-", "mebi-".

Enum values should be treated as opaque: use umeas_getPrefixPower() and umeas_getPrefixBase() to find their corresponding values.

Stable:
  ICU 69

See also
  umeas_getPrefixBase
  umeas_getPrefixPower

## Enumeration Type Documentation

## ◆ UMatchDegree

enum icu::UMatchDegree

Constants returned by `UnicodeMatcher::matches()` indicating the degree of match.

Stable:
  ICU 2.4

Enumerator
U_MISMATCH | Constant returned by `matches()` indicating a mismatch between the text and this matcher. The text contains a character which does not match, or the text does not contain all desired characters for a non-incremental match. Stable: ICU 2.4
U_PARTIAL_MATCH | Constant returned by `matches()` indicating a partial match between the text and this matcher. This value is only returned for incremental match operations. All characters of the text match, but more characters are required for a complete match. Alternatively, for variable-length matchers, all characters of the text match, and if more characters were supplied at limit, they might also match. Stable: ICU 2.4
U_MATCH | Constant returned by `matches()` indicating a complete match between the text and this matcher. For an incremental variable-length match, this value is returned if the given text matches, and it is known that additional characters would not alter the extent of the match. Stable: ICU 2.4

Definition at line 33 of file unimatch.h.

## ◆ UMeasurePrefix

enum icu::UMeasurePrefix

Enumeration for SI and binary prefixes, e.g.

"kilo-", "nano-", "mebi-".

Enum values should be treated as opaque: use umeas_getPrefixPower() and umeas_getPrefixBase() to find their corresponding values.

Stable:
  ICU 69

See also
  umeas_getPrefixBase
  umeas_getPrefixPower

Enumerator
UMEASURE_PREFIX_ONE | The absence of an SI or binary prefix. The integer representation of this enum value is an arbitrary implementation detail and should not be relied upon: use umeas_getPrefixPower() to obtain meaningful values. Stable: ICU 69
UMEASURE_PREFIX_YOTTA | SI prefix: yotta, 10^24. Stable: ICU 69
UMEASURE_PREFIX_RONNA | SI prefix: ronna, 10^27. Draft: This API may be changed in the future versions and was introduced in ICU 75
UMEASURE_PREFIX_QUETTA | SI prefix: quetta, 10^30. Draft: This API may be changed in the future versions and was introduced in ICU 75
UMEASURE_PREFIX_INTERNAL_MAX_SI | ICU use only. Used to determine the set of base-10 SI prefixes. Internal: Do not use. This API is for internal use only.
UMEASURE_PREFIX_ZETTA | SI prefix: zetta, 10^21. Stable: ICU 69
UMEASURE_PREFIX_EXA | SI prefix: exa, 10^18. Stable: ICU 69
UMEASURE_PREFIX_PETA | SI prefix: peta, 10^15. Stable: ICU 69
UMEASURE_PREFIX_TERA | SI prefix: tera, 10^12. Stable: ICU 69
UMEASURE_PREFIX_GIGA | SI prefix: giga, 10^9. Stable: ICU 69
UMEASURE_PREFIX_MEGA | SI prefix: mega, 10^6. Stable: ICU 69
UMEASURE_PREFIX_KILO | SI prefix: kilo, 10^3. Stable: ICU 69
UMEASURE_PREFIX_HECTO | SI prefix: hecto, 10^2. Stable: ICU 69
UMEASURE_PREFIX_DEKA | SI prefix: deka, 10^1. Stable: ICU 69
UMEASURE_PREFIX_DECI | SI prefix: deci, 10^-1. Stable: ICU 69
UMEASURE_PREFIX_CENTI | SI prefix: centi, 10^-2. Stable: ICU 69
UMEASURE_PREFIX_MILLI | SI prefix: milli, 10^-3. Stable: ICU 69
UMEASURE_PREFIX_MICRO | SI prefix: micro, 10^-6. Stable: ICU 69
UMEASURE_PREFIX_NANO | SI prefix: nano, 10^-9. Stable: ICU 69
UMEASURE_PREFIX_PICO | SI prefix: pico, 10^-12. Stable: ICU 69
UMEASURE_PREFIX_FEMTO | SI prefix: femto, 10^-15. Stable: ICU 69
UMEASURE_PREFIX_ATTO | SI prefix: atto, 10^-18. Stable: ICU 69
UMEASURE_PREFIX_ZEPTO | SI prefix: zepto, 10^-21. Stable: ICU 69
UMEASURE_PREFIX_YOCTO | SI prefix: yocto, 10^-24. Stable: ICU 69
UMEASURE_PREFIX_RONTO | SI prefix: ronto, 10^-27. Draft: This API may be changed in the future versions and was introduced in ICU 75
UMEASURE_PREFIX_QUECTO | SI prefix: quecto, 10^-30. Draft: This API may be changed in the future versions and was introduced in ICU 75
UMEASURE_PREFIX_INTERNAL_MIN_SI | ICU use only. Used to determine the set of base-10 SI prefixes. Internal: Do not use. This API is for internal use only.
UMEASURE_PREFIX_INTERNAL_ONE_BIN | ICU use only. Sets the arbitrary offset of the base-1024 binary prefixes' enum values. Internal: Do not use. This API is for internal use only.
UMEASURE_PREFIX_KIBI | Binary prefix: kibi, 1024^1. Stable: ICU 69
UMEASURE_PREFIX_INTERNAL_MIN_BIN | ICU use only. Used to determine the set of base-1024 binary prefixes. Internal: Do not use. This API is for internal use only.
UMEASURE_PREFIX_MEBI | Binary prefix: mebi, 1024^2. Stable: ICU 69
UMEASURE_PREFIX_GIBI | Binary prefix: gibi, 1024^3. Stable: ICU 69
UMEASURE_PREFIX_TEBI | Binary prefix: tebi, 1024^4. Stable: ICU 69
UMEASURE_PREFIX_PEBI | Binary prefix: pebi, 1024^5. Stable: ICU 69
UMEASURE_PREFIX_EXBI | Binary prefix: exbi, 1024^6. Stable: ICU 69
UMEASURE_PREFIX_ZEBI | Binary prefix: zebi, 1024^7. Stable: ICU 69
UMEASURE_PREFIX_YOBI | Binary prefix: yobi, 1024^8. Stable: ICU 69
UMEASURE_PREFIX_INTERNAL_MAX_BIN | ICU use only. Used to determine the set of base-1024 binary prefixes. Internal: Do not use. This API is for internal use only.

Definition at line 89 of file measunit.h.

## ◆ UMeasureUnitComplexity

enum icu::UMeasureUnitComplexity

Enumeration for unit complexity.

There are three levels:

- SINGLE: A single unit, optionally with a power and/or SI or binary prefix. Examples: hectare, square-kilometer, kilojoule, per-second, mebibyte.
- COMPOUND: A unit composed of the product of multiple single units. Examples: meter-per-second, kilowatt-hour, kilogram-meter-per-square-second.
- MIXED: A unit composed of the sum of multiple single units. Examples: foot+inch, hour+minute+second, degree+arcminute+arcsecond.

The complexity determines which operations are available. For example, you cannot set the power or prefix of a compound unit.

Stable:
  ICU 67

Enumerator
UMEASURE_UNIT_SINGLE | A single unit, like kilojoule. Stable: ICU 67
UMEASURE_UNIT_COMPOUND | A compound unit, like meter-per-second. Stable: ICU 67
UMEASURE_UNIT_MIXED | A mixed unit, like hour+minute. Stable: ICU 67

Definition at line 55 of file measunit.h.

## ◆ URBNFRuleSetTag

enum icu::URBNFRuleSetTag

Tags for the predefined rulesets.

Stable:
  ICU 2.2

Enumerator
URBNF_SPELLOUT | Requests predefined ruleset for spelling out numeric values in words. Stable: ICU 2.2
URBNF_ORDINAL | Requests predefined ruleset for the ordinal form of a number. Stable: ICU 2.2
URBNF_DURATION | Requests predefined ruleset for formatting a value as a duration in hours, minutes, and seconds. Deprecated: ICU 74 Use MeasureFormat instead.
URBNF_NUMBERING_SYSTEM | Requests predefined ruleset for various non-place-value numbering systems. WARNING: The same resource contains rule sets for a variety of different numbering systems. You need to call setDefaultRuleSet() on the formatter to choose the actual numbering system. Stable: ICU 2.2
URBNF_COUNT | One more than the highest normal URBNFRuleSetTag value. Deprecated: ICU 58 The numeric value may change over time, see ICU ticket #12420.

Definition at line 56 of file rbnf.h.

## Function Documentation

## ◆ GenderInfo_initCache()

void icu::GenderInfo_initCache | ( | UErrorCode & | status | ) |

Internal:
  Do not use.

This API is for internal use only. Forward Declaration

## ◆ locale_available_init()

void icu::locale_available_init | ( |  | ) |

Internal:
  Do not use.

This API is for internal use only.

## ◆ operator!=()

bool icu::operator!= | ( | const StringPiece & | x,
|  | const StringPiece & | y
| ) |  |
| inline

Global operator != for StringPiece.

Parameters

  x | The first StringPiece to compare.
  y | The second StringPiece to compare.

Returns
  true if the string data is not equal

Stable:
  ICU 4.8

Definition at line 335 of file stringpiece.h.

## ◆ operator+()

U_COMMON_API UnicodeString icu::operator+ | ( | const UnicodeString & | s1,
|  | const UnicodeString & | s2
| ) |  |

Create a new UnicodeString with the concatenation of two others.

Parameters

  s1 | The first string to be copied to the new one.
  s2 | The second string to be copied to the new one, after s1.

Returns
  UnicodeString(s1).append(s2)

Stable:
  ICU 2.8

## ◆ operator<<()

U_IO_API std::ostream& icu::operator<< | ( | std::ostream & | stream,
|  | const UnicodeString & | s
| ) |  |

Write the contents of a UnicodeString to a C++ ostream.

This functions writes the characters in a UnicodeString to an ostream. The UChars in the UnicodeString are converted to the char based ostream with the default converter.

Stable:
  3.0

## ◆ operator==()

U_EXPORT UBool icu::operator== | ( | const StringPiece & | x,
|  | const StringPiece & | y
| ) |  |

Global operator == for StringPiece.

Parameters

  x | The first StringPiece to compare.
  y | The second StringPiece to compare.

Returns
  true if the string data is equal

Stable:
  ICU 4.8

Referenced by icu::BreakIterator::operator!=(), icu::Calendar::operator!=(), icu::CurrencyPluralInfo::operator!=(), icu::DateFormatSymbols::operator!=(), icu::DateIntervalInfo::operator!=(), icu::DecimalFormatSymbols::operator!=(), icu::FieldPosition::operator!=(), icu::FieldPositionIterator::operator!=(), icu::DateIntervalFormat::operator!=(), icu::Format::operator!=(), icu::Formattable::operator!=(), icu::ForwardCharacterIterator::operator!=(), icu::Locale::operator!=(), icu::MessagePattern::operator!=(), icu::Normalizer::operator!=(), icu::ParsePosition::operator!=(), icu::MessagePattern::Part::operator!=(), icu::PluralRules::operator!=(), icu::RegexPattern::operator!=(), icu::SearchIterator::operator!=(), icu::TimeZone::operator!=(), icu::TimeZoneNames::operator!=(), icu::UnicodeSet::operator!=(), icu::Measure::operator!=(), and icu::TimeUnitAmount::operator!=().

## ◆ operator>>()

U_IO_API std::istream& icu::operator>> | ( | std::istream & | stream,
|  | UnicodeString & | s
| ) |  |

Write the contents from a C++ istream to a UnicodeString.

The UChars in the UnicodeString are converted from the char based istream with the default converter.

Stable:
  3.0

## ◆ toOldUCharPtr() [1/2]

OldUChar* icu::toOldUCharPtr | ( | char16_t * | p | ) |
| inline

Converts from char16_t * to OldUChar *.

Includes an aliasing barrier if available.

Parameters

  p | pointer

Returns
  p as OldUChar *

Stable:
  ICU 59

Definition at line 302 of file char16ptr.h.

References U_ALIASING_BARRIER.

## ◆ toOldUCharPtr() [2/2]

const OldUChar* icu::toOldUCharPtr | ( | const char16_t * | p | ) |
| inline

Converts from const char16_t * to const OldUChar *.

Includes an aliasing barrier if available.

Parameters

  p | pointer

Returns
  p as const OldUChar *

Stable:
  ICU 59

Definition at line 288 of file char16ptr.h.

References U_ALIASING_BARRIER.

## ◆ toUCharPtr() [1/2]

UChar* icu::toUCharPtr | ( | char16_t * | p | ) |
| inline

Converts from char16_t * to UChar *.

Includes an aliasing barrier if available.

Parameters

  p | pointer

Returns
  p as UChar *

Stable:
  ICU 59

Definition at line 274 of file char16ptr.h.

References U_ALIASING_BARRIER.

## ◆ toUCharPtr() [2/2]

const UChar* icu::toUCharPtr | ( | const char16_t * | p | ) |
| inline

Converts from const char16_t * to const UChar *.

Includes an aliasing barrier if available.

Parameters

  p | pointer

Returns
  p as const UChar *

Stable:
  ICU 59

Definition at line 260 of file char16ptr.h.

References U_ALIASING_BARRIER.

Referenced by icu::Normalizer::compare(), icu::UnicodeString::endsWith(), and icu::UnicodeString::startsWith().

## ◆ umeas_getPrefixBase()

U_CAPI int32_t icu::umeas_getPrefixBase | ( | UMeasurePrefix | unitPrefix | ) |

Returns the base of the factor associated with the given unit prefix: the base is 10 for SI prefixes (kilo, micro) and 1024 for binary prefixes (kibi, mebi).

Stable:
  ICU 69

## ◆ umeas_getPrefixPower()

U_CAPI int32_t icu::umeas_getPrefixPower | ( | UMeasurePrefix | unitPrefix | ) |

Returns the exponent of the factor associated with the given unit prefix, for example 3 for kilo, -6 for micro, 1 for kibi, 2 for mebi, 3 for gibi.

Stable:
  ICU 69

## ◆ ures_getNextUnicodeString()

UnicodeString icu::ures_getNextUnicodeString | ( | UResourceBundle * | resB,
|  | const char ** | key,
|  | UErrorCode * | status
| ) |  |
| inline

Returns the next string in a resource, or an empty string if there are no more resources to iterate over.

Use ures_getNextString() instead to distinguish between the end of the iteration and a real empty string value.

Parameters

  resB | a resource
  key | fill in for key associated with this string
  status | fills in the outgoing error code

Returns
  The string value, or a bogus string if there is a failure UErrorCode.

Stable:
  ICU 2.0

Definition at line 838 of file ures.h.

References icu::UnicodeString::setTo(), icu::UnicodeString::setToBogus(), U_SUCCESS, and ures_getNextString().

## ◆ ures_getUnicodeString()

UnicodeString icu::ures_getUnicodeString | ( | const UResourceBundle * | resB,
|  | UErrorCode * | status
| ) |  |
| inline

Returns the string value from a string resource bundle.

Parameters

  resB | a resource, should have type URES_STRING
  status | fills in the outgoing error code could be `U_MISSING_RESOURCE_ERROR` if the key is not found could be a non-failing error e.g.: `U_USING_FALLBACK_WARNING`,`U_USING_DEFAULT_WARNING`

Returns
  The string value, or a bogus string if there is a failure UErrorCode.

Stable:
  ICU 2.0

Definition at line 813 of file ures.h.

References icu::UnicodeString::setTo(), icu::UnicodeString::setToBogus(), U_SUCCESS, and ures_getString().

## ◆ ures_getUnicodeStringByIndex()

UnicodeString icu::ures_getUnicodeStringByIndex | ( | const UResourceBundle * | resB,
|  | int32_t | indexS,
|  | UErrorCode * | status
| ) |  |
| inline

Returns the string in a given resource array or table at the specified index.

Parameters

  resB | a resource
  indexS | an index to the wanted string.
  status | fills in the outgoing error code

Returns
  The string value, or a bogus string if there is a failure UErrorCode.

Stable:
  ICU 2.0

Definition at line 860 of file ures.h.

References icu::UnicodeString::setTo(), icu::UnicodeString::setToBogus(), U_SUCCESS, and ures_getStringByIndex().

## ◆ ures_getUnicodeStringByKey()

UnicodeString icu::ures_getUnicodeStringByKey | ( | const UResourceBundle * | resB,
|  | const char * | key,
|  | UErrorCode * | status
| ) |  |
| inline

Returns a string in a resource that has a given key.

This procedure works only with table resources.

Parameters

  resB | a resource
  key | a key associated with the wanted string
  status | fills in the outgoing error code

Returns
  The string value, or a bogus string if there is a failure UErrorCode.

Stable:
  ICU 2.0

Definition at line 883 of file ures.h.

References icu::UnicodeString::setTo(), icu::UnicodeString::setToBogus(), U_SUCCESS, and ures_getStringByKey().

## Variable Documentation

## ◆ kInternalNumSysNameCapacity

constexpr const size_t icu::kInternalNumSysNameCapacity = 8
| constexpr

Size of a numbering system name.

Internal:
  Do not use. This API is for internal use only.

Definition at line 42 of file numsys.h.