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Working with Text
Checking Character Properties
Comparing Strings
Performing Locale-Independent Comparisons
Customizing Collation Rules
Improving Collation Performance
Detecting Text Boundaries
About the BreakIterator Class
Character Boundaries
Word Boundaries
Sentence Boundaries
Line Boundaries
Converting Non-Unicode Text
Byte Encodings and Strings
Character and Byte Streams
Normalizer's API
Trail: Internationalization
Lesson: Working with Text

> Nearly all programs with user interfaces manipulate text. In an international market the text your programs display must conform to the rules of languages from around the world. The Java programming language provides a number of classes that help you handle text in a locale-independent manner.

### Checking Character Properties

> This section explains how to use the `Character` comparison methods to check character properties for all major languages.

### Comparing Strings

> In this section you'll learn how to perform locale-independent string comparisons with the `Collator` class.

### Detecting Text Boundaries

> This section shows how the `BreakIterator` class can detect character, word, sentence, and line boundaries.

### Converting Non-Unicode Text

> Different computer systems around the world store text in a variety of encoding schemes. This section describes the classes that help you convert text between Unicode and other encodings.

### Normalizer's API

> This section explains how to use the Normalizer's API to transform text applying different normalization forms.

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