Why you need ICU library to parse datetime strings?!! The my previous patch
to parse Russian dates has only single row without any external libs.

2012/4/2 Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org>

> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > I think ... a higher priority than that would be handling Unicode
> > correctly.  And having Unicode support would be useful in writing the
> code
> > which handles dates.
> >
> >
> size of SQLite library:  approx 500 KB
> size of ICU library: approx 21,919 KB
>
> The ICU library (needed to handle Unicode "correctly") is over 40x larger
> than SQLite.  Can you understand then why we don't want to make SQLite
> dependent upon ICU?
>
> If you really need correct ICU support, SQLite will optionally link with
> ICU and use it.  But *requiring* SQLite to link against ICU is a
> deal-breaker for many users.
>
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Best regards, Alexey Pechnikov.
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