Returns a pointer to a new CharacterIterator of the same concrete class as this one, and referring to the same character in the same text-storage object as this one. The caller is responsible for deleting the new clone.

Returns:

a pointer to a new CharacterIterator ICU 2.0

Implemented in StringCharacterIterator, and UCharCharacterIterator.

Referenced by RuleBasedBreakIterator::operator=(), Normalizer::setText(), CharIterTest::TestConstructionAndEquality(), and RBBIAPITest::TestGetSetAdoptText().