package sun.text.normalizer does not exist

[jiayu]

I am upgrading our java 1.5 application to 1.6.

In java 1.5 it using sun.text.NormalizerImpl.canonicalDecomposeWithSing leQuotation method. I changed it to 1.6 method sun.text.normalizer.canonicalDecomposeWithSingleQu otation. However, it failed during the build. and got

package sun.text.normalizer does not exist for the line "import sun.text.normalizer.NormalizerImpl"

I wrote a small class:


import sun.text.normalizer.NormalizerImpl;


public class TestNormalizer {

public static void main(String [] args)
{
String result = NormalizerImpl.canonicalDecomposeWithSingleQuotati on("skfjalsfj");
System.out.println("Done:");
}
}

and run in the command line using

java TestNormalizer

I got two errors


D:\tmp>javac TestNormalizer.java
TestNormalizer.java:1: package sun.text.normalizer does not exist
import sun.text.normalizer.*;
^
TestNormalizer.java:7: cannot find symbol
symbol : variable NormalizerImpl
location: class TestNormalizer
String result = NormalizerImpl.canonicalDecomposeWithSingleQuotati on("skfjalsfj");
^
2 errors

However, sun.text.normalizer package is in rt.jar under <JAVA_HOME>/jre/lib

Any idea?

Jia

[JosAH]

All packages and classes under the sun.* hierarchy are not part of the public API and you're not supposed to use them.

kind regarrds,

Jos

[pbrockway2]

Also those errors don't go with that code.

[jiayu]

Thanks so much for the reply. Is there any public API we can use to achieve the same function?

Thanks again,

Jia