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/**
* Provides classes and interfaces for handling text, dates, numbers,
* and messages in a manner independent of natural languages. This
* means your main application or applet can be written to be
* language-independent, and it can rely upon separate,
* dynamically-linked localized resources. This allows the flexibility
* of adding localizations for new localizations at any time.
*
* <p>These classes are capable of formatting dates, numbers, and
* messages, parsing; searching and sorting strings; and iterating
* over characters, words, sentences, and line breaks. This package
* contains three main groups of classes and interfaces:
*
* <ul>
* <li>Classes for iteration over text
* <li>Classes for formatting and parsing
* <li>Classes for string collation
* </ul>
*
* @since 1.1
*/
package java.text;