Another data point: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/intl/international-components-for-unicode--icu-
Windows 10 has been shipping ICU for the past 2 years, and I somehow never noticed. -- Tino Didriksen On Mon, 27 May 2019 at 13:56, Tino Didriksen <tino.didrik...@gmail.com> wrote: > The PR https://github.com/apertium/apertium/pull/47 wants to add a direct > dependency on ICU. I am in favour of this, but figured it should be brought > up on the list. > > Reasoning: > - HFST and CG-3 both require ICU, and ICU has been the official Unicode > library for 3 years now. > - lttoolbox requires libxml2, and libxml2 requires ICU - so Apertium > already has a transitive dependency on ICU. > - Language development requires libxml2-utils to get xmllint, which again > transitively requires ICU. > > So we might as well embrace ICU entirely - also in other parts of > lttoolbox and the wider Apertium tools. > > -- Tino Didriksen > >
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