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package sun.text.normalizer;
/**
* <code>UnicodeMatcher</code> defines a protocol for objects that can
* match a range of characters in a Replaceable string.
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
public interface UnicodeMatcher {
/**
* The character at index i, where i < contextStart || i >= contextLimit,
* is ETHER. This allows explicit matching by rules and UnicodeSets
* of text outside the context. In traditional terms, this allows anchoring
* at the start and/or end.
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
static final char ETHER = '\uFFFF';
}
//eof