Mark, I wholeheartedly agree with you.
I too tried it with 2.5 but didn't success so I gave up at that time. >From what I have been able to read, the documentation that exists seems to be >a mix on both 3.0, 2.x and even 1.5 making it a little unclear. Especially as README.intl.txt also mentions "you can replace ICU libraries by a complete one found in our site", but I don't remember ever having found anything like that on firebirdsql.org. Thanks for your input, Magnus From: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com [mailto:firebird-support@yahoogroups.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2017 10:34 AM To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [firebird-support] FB 3.0 Replacing ICU libraries On 2017-09-12 10:15, Magnus Johansson mag...@nimajo.se [firebird-support] wrote: > Hi All, > > Perhaps my previous post about collation problem was too long so that > nobody cared to read it through, so let me start with a simpler > question. > > I need unicode collation for Swedish and therefore I have to replace > the ICU libraries. > > First I have downloaded the snapshot for FB 3.0.3 for Windows > (Firebird-3.0.3.32802-0_x64). > > Then I went to http://site.icu-project.org/download and downloaded > icu4c-52_1-Win64-msvc10.zip from where I got the icu*52.dll's and > extracted them to the FB3 folder, replacing the existing ones. > > No changes done in intl\fbintl.conf or anything else. > > I would appreciate if anyone could just answer if this is the correct > way to do this. I believe this is the correct approach, but I have only tried it once with Firebird 2.5 and ran into some compatibility issues at that time. Unfortunately this is - afaik - entirely undocumented. Personally I'd prefer if Firebird was just released with the full ICU library instead of the trimmed down version. Mark
