ICU4C Proposal: uset_applyPattern

Motivation: The C API for Unicode set is a thin wrapper for the C++ API. The
C API is not fully fleshed out. The uset_applyPattern API is needed for some
APIs that are going into ICU 2.8 release.

Expires: 5th Nov 2003

/**
 * Modifies the set to represent the set specified by the given
 * pattern. See the UnicodeSet class description for the syntax of
 * the pattern language.
 * @param set               The set to which the pattern is to be applied.
 * @param pattern           A pointer to UChar string specifying what
characters are in the set
 * @param patternLength     The length of the UChar string
 * @param status            Returns <code>U_ILLEGAL_ARGUMENT_ERROR</code> if
the pattern
 * contains a syntax error.
 * @return Retruns the pointer to the passed in USet
 * @draft ICU 2.8
 */
U_CAPI USet* U_EXPORT2
uset_applyPattern(USet *set,
                  const UChar* pattern, int32_t patternLength,
                  UErrorCode* status);

Best Regards,

Ram Viswanadha
ICU