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25
26/**
27 * Provides classes and interfaces for handling text, dates, numbers,
28 * and messages in a manner independent of natural languages.  This
29 * means your main application or applet can be written to be
30 * language-independent, and it can rely upon separate,
31 * dynamically-linked localized resources. This allows the flexibility
32 * of adding localizations for new localizations at any time.
33 *
34 * <p>These classes are capable of formatting dates, numbers, and
35 * messages, parsing; searching and sorting strings; and iterating
36 * over characters, words, sentences, and line breaks.  This package
37 * contains three main groups of classes and interfaces:
38 *
39 * <ul>
40 * <li>Classes for iteration over text
41 * <li>Classes for formatting and parsing
42 * <li>Classes for string collation
43 * </ul>
44 *
45 * @since 1.1
46 */
47package java.text;
48