Just to put a little more spin on that... The parser has a pluggable transcoding framework. ICU is one of the transcoders you can plug in, on the platforms where it is supported. You can also plug in other transcoders that are supported on a particular platform. However, ICU probably has far and away more supported encodings that any other alternative, except perhaps the native transcoder on AS/400 or something like that. On most platforms, there is a native transcoder that provides (in addition to the intrinsice encodings supported by the parser itself), whatever encodings are supported by the native OS on that workstation. -------------- Dean Roddey Software Geek Extraordinaire Portal, Inc [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Tinny Ng [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 10:00 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ICU Xerces-C has intrinsic support for basic encodings like UTF-16, ISO-8859-1 ...etc. However, if you wish to parse XML files in some special encodings, say in Shift-JIS, Big5 etc., then you need ICU. International Components for Unicode (ICU) provides support for over 100 different encodings. See http://www10.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/icu/index.html . Tinny Sean Mcelroy wrote: > Can someone tell me what ICU is, what it's purpose is, and do I need to > install it? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
