- Where is the official place to download the ICU library for support of BIDI?
http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/ is the project's home page. They have packages for some distros, but not as many as i would like.
Also, when I have some time, there is a way to compile ICU so that it doesn't require anything at runtime at all if it is statically linked. I need to figure that one out and pass along to Wine packagers (except Ove, I guess, as Debian carries ICU in its official archives).
- Should we not have a BIDI section in documentation?
Do you vulenteer to write one?
- Is there a place on winehq with links to extra needed downloads? should ICU be there 2?
I add, at some point in the past, a list of soft dependancies for Wine. It should be somewhere in the developers docs. ICU is already there.
Free Life Boaz
One more point I'm thinking of is to add to configure a warning for each missing functionality detected at configure time. That is - each soft dependancy not available at configure time will bring up a one line warning at the end of configure, along the lines of:
Warning - ICU not detected. Compiled Wine will not support BiDi. See http://www.winehq.org/something.
Also, see http://www.winehq.org/?issue=171#More%20BiDi%20Work?
Shachar
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