ICU4C 3.2 d01 (alpha) release available now

Dear friends and users of ICU,

We are pleased to announce that the d01 (alpha) release of ICU4C Version 3.2 
(http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/) is now available.

The ICU4C alpha release 3.2 is available on our public web sites, 
http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/download/3.2/.

Please use our bug reporting tool and support mailing lists, see 
http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/

If you plan or consider to use ICU4C 3.2, then please download and test it at 
your earliest convenience.

Please submit bugs, porting changes and fixes(!) by Friday 11/05/2004.

Features of this reference release will include:
     *  ICU locale data is now completely built from the CLDR 1.2  data 
(currently in beta period, to be final by ICU 3.2 beta)
     * Major overhaul of ICU's Users Guide  production tools.  We now use Open 
Office and source files are publicly available
     * Universal Timescale conversions
     * DateTimeFormat object initialization performance improvement
     * Reduction in size of executables that statically link to ICU
     * Additional platform ports
     * Bug fixes

Please see the release notes on the download pages and the readme for a complete 
list of features and enhancements.

The companion Java library, ICU4J, will be available soon.

Regards,
v.

-- 
Vladimir Weinstein, IBM GCoC-Unicode/ICU  San Jose, CA [email protected]