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	1	Copyright (C) 2016 and later: Unicode, Inc. and others.
	2	License & terms of use: http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html#License
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	4	Copyright (c) 2002-2010, International Business Machines Corporation and others. All Rights Reserved.
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	7	IMPORTANT:
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	9	This sample was originally intended as an exercise for the ICU Workshop (September 2000).
	10	The code currently provided in the solution file is the answer to the exercises, each step can still be found in the 'answers' subdirectory.
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	15	http://www.icu-project.org/docs/workshop_2000/agenda.html
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	17	Day 2: September 12th 2000
	18	Pre-requisites:
	19	1. All the hardware and software requirements from Day 1.
	20	2. Attended or fully understand Day 1 material.
	21	3. Read through the ICU user's guide at
	22	http://www.icu-project.org/userguide/.
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	24	#Date/Time/Number Formatting Support
	25	9:30am - 10:30am
	26	Alan Liu
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	28	Topics:
	29	1. What is the date/time support in ICU?
	30	2. What is the timezone support in ICU?
	31	3. What kind of formatting and parsing support is available in ICU, i.e.
	32	NumberFormat, DateFormat, MessageFormat?
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	35	INSTRUCTIONS
	36	------------
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	39	This exercise was first developed and tested on ICU release 1.6.0, Win32,
	40	Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0. It should work on other ICU releases and
	41	other platforms as well.
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	43	MSVC:
	44	Open the file "msgfmt.sln" in Microsoft Visual C++.
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	46	Unix:
	47	- Build and install ICU with a prefix, for example '--prefix=/home/srl/ICU'
	48	- Set the variable ICU_PREFIX=/home/srl/ICU and use GNU make in
	49	this directory.
	50	- You may use 'make check' to invoke this sample.
	51
	52	PROBLEMS
	53	--------
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	55	Problem 0:
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	57	Set up the program, build it, and run it. To start with, the
	58	program prints out the word "Message".
	59
	60	Problem 1: Basic Message Formatting (Easy)
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	62	Use a MessageFormat to create a message that prints out "Received
	63	<n> argument(s) on <d>.", where n is the number of command line
	64	arguments (use argc-1), and d is the date (use Calendar::getNow()).
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	66	HINT: Your message pattern should have a "number" element and a
	67	"date" element, and you will need to use Formattable.
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	69	Problem 2: ChoiceFormat (Medium)
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	71	We can do better than "argument(s)". Instead, we can display more
	72	idiomatic strings, such as "no arguments", "one argument", "two
	73	arguments", and for higher values, we can use a number format.
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	75	This kind of value-based switching is done using a ChoiceFormat.
	76	However, you seldom needs to create a ChoiceFormat by itself.
	77	Instead, most of the time you will supply the ChoiceFormat pattern
	78	within a MessageFormat pattern.
	79
	80	Use a ChoiceFormat pattern within the MessageFormat pattern, instead
	81	of the "number" element, to display more idiomatic strings.
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	83	EXTRA: Embed a number element within the choice element to handle
	84	values greater than two.
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	87	ANSWERS
	88	-------
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	90	The exercise includes answers. These are in the "answers" directory,
	91	and are numbered 1, 2, etc.
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	93	If you get stuck and you want to move to the next step, copy the
	94	answers file into the main directory in order to proceed. E.g.,
	95	"main_1.cpp" contains the original "main.cpp" file. "main_2.cpp"
	96	contains the "main.cpp" file after problem 1. Etc.
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	98
	99	Have fun!