Tagged through the following for use by CLDR:

• fb0f362 ICU-22324 Small fixes for script moving folders to maven structure
• 2270c17 ICU-22325 CLDR release-44-alpha1 to main:
• 5d6d197 ICU-22466 Fix incorrect memory read while the locale is bogus
• 667ee72 ICU-22457 count() of getUnicodeKeywords is incorrect
• 52177cc ICU-22364 Modify ulocimp_getRegionForSupplementalData() to ignore the subdivision code...
• 248b1c2 ICU-22309 update to LICENSE v3, Readme.md, CONTRIBUTING.md
• 1fc560c ICU-22465 Change .s to .data() for replacing TinyString with CharString.
• a7a2fdb ICU-22324 Script moving folders to maven structure
• ffc449d ICU-20777 Merge the likelySubtags implemention
• 27181e3 ICU-22435 Add C API for Locale #2531
• 81a6edb ICU-22404 Unicode 15.1 data 20230811 plus UTS46 fix

Tagged through the following for use by CLDR:

• 56850c9 ICU-22402 Add support in ICU and in the CLDR-to-ICU tool for the new nativeSpaceReplacement and
  parameterDefault resources for PersonNameFormatter in CLDR.
• 47e47ec ICU-22433 uppercase decomposed greek to decomposed greek and precomposed greek to precomposed greek.
• 720e574 ICU-22362 Fix build error in exhaustive tests resulting from last PersonName change.
• 89b952d ICU-22362 Fix the name order derivation code in PersonNameFormatter to match the CLDR spec.
• 6ba5a1a ICU-22365 C API for ULocaleBuilder (#2520)

Tagged through the following for use by CLDR:

• 281a2a7 ICU-22350 Give maven.yml packages:write
• c7e967c ICU-22401 fix build on MSVC with cpp20
• 2e45e6e ICU-22404 Unicode 15.1 beta data files & API constants
• 5826bf7 ICU-22434 Not calling setFirstDayOfWeek(MONDAY) if the locale has fw
• 034a808 ICU-20898 Improve number skeleton rounding increment docs
• 70d3087 ICU-22325 BRS 74 front-load update version to 74.0.1

Tagged through the following for use by CLDR:

• c7e967c ICU-22401 fix build on MSVC with cpp20
• 2e45e6e ICU-22404 Unicode 15.1 beta data files & API constants
• 5826bf7 ICU-22434 Not calling setFirstDayOfWeek(MONDAY) if the locale has fw
• 034a808 ICU-20898 Improve number skeleton rounding increment docs
• 70d3087 ICU-22325 BRS 74 front-load update version to 74.0.1

We are pleased to announce the release of Unicode® ICU 73.2. It updates to CLDR 43.1 locale data with various additions and corrections. These are maintenance releases for ICU 73 and CLDR 43, with limited sets of bug fixes and no API or structural changes.

There are significant changes for GB18030-2022 compliance support:

• CLDR extends the support for “short” Chinese sort orders to cover some additional, required characters for Level 2. This is carried over into ICU collation.
• ICU has a modified character conversion table, mapping some GB18030 characters to Unicode characters that were encoded after GB18030-2005.

There are also changes for compatibility:

• There are optional variants of time formats with AM/PM (only for English) using ASCII spaces in CLDR that can also be used in ICU via custom data generation. This is intended to help certain implementers transition to the improved patterns, which have used a narrow no-break space between the time and AM/PM since CLDR 42.
  • For how to generate ICU data with this option, look for alt="ascii" on main/tools/cldr/cldr-to-icu/README.md
• The changes to the word segmentation behavior of @ sign that were in CLDR 42 (ICU 72) have been reverted. These caused problems for certain parsers that did not expect @ to join to letters.

ICU 73.2 and CLDR 43.1 include several other bug fixes, including person name formatting, and Cyrillic transforms.

For details, please see https://icu.unicode.org/download/73.

Note: The prebuilt WinARM64 binaries below should be considered alpha/experimental.

Tag to release icuexportdata artifacts for ICU4X

We are pleased to announce the release of Unicode® ICU 73. It updates to CLDR 43 locale data with various additions and corrections.

ICU 73 improves Japanese and Korean short-text line breaking, reduces C++ memory use in date formatting, and promotes the Java person name formatter from tech preview to draft.

ICU 73 and CLDR 43 are minor releases, mostly focused on bug fixes and small enhancements. (The fall CLDR/ICU releases will update to Unicode 15.1 which is planned for September.)

ICU 73 updates to the time zone data version 2023c (2023-mar). Note that pre-1970 data for a number of time zones has been removed, as has been the case in the upstream tzdata release since 2021b.

For details, please see https://icu.unicode.org/download/73.

Note: The prebuilt WinARM64 binaries below should be considered alpha/experimental.

Tagged through the following for use by CLDR:

• 80f94a6 ICU-22221 CLDR release-43-beta5 to ICU maint/maint-73
• 7d4e57d ICU-22340 Fix it so that UNUM_NUMBERING_SYSTEM again always returns a RuleBasedNumberFormat.(cherry-pick from main)

Tagged maint/maint-73 through the following for use by CLDR:

• f4687fc... ICU-22221 update root collation again from CLDR 43
• 2c584ab... ICU-22221 rebase CLDR 43-beta4 import onto latest maint/maint-73 (new zoneinfo64)
• c125cf6... ICU-22337 restore strict parsing length tolerance for non-abutting numeric date fields
• 9f774e2... ICU-22339 Update ICU tzdata to 2023c for ICU 73.1 release

We are pleased to announce the release candidate for Unicode® ICU 73. It updates to CLDR 43 locale data with various additions and corrections.

ICU 73 improves Japanese and Korean short-text line breaking, reduces C++ memory use in date formatting, and promotes the Java person name formatter from tech preview to draft.

ICU 73 and CLDR 43 are minor releases, mostly focused on bug fixes and small enhancements. (The fall CLDR/ICU releases will update to Unicode 15.1 which is planned for September.)

ICU 73 updates to the time zone data version 2022g (2022-nov). Note that pre-1970 data for a number of time zones has been removed, as has been the case in the upstream tzdata release since 2021b.

For details, please see https://icu.unicode.org/download/73.

Please test this release candidate on your platforms and report bugs and regressions by Tuesday, 2023-apr-11, via the icu-support mailing list, and/or please find/submit error reports.

Please do not use this release candidate in production.

The preliminary API reference documents are published on unicode-org.github.io/icu-docs/ – follow the “Dev” links there.

Note: The prebuilt WinARM64 binaries below should be considered alpha/experimental.