Re: New external dependecy request (ICU)

[Keld Jřrn Simonsen <keld dkuug dk>]

On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 06:35:46PM -0500, Miguel de Icaza wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> > libICU used Common XML Locale Repository as far as I can tell, and
> > Common XML Locale Repository is supported by Sun (for OpenOffice for
> > instance), IBM (for libICU for C and Java), by Red Hat. The Mono project
> > is also using libicu so maybe you could say that Novell is supporting it
> > indirectly? Anyway, it seems like at least the companies behind GNOME
> > support libicu and its use.
> 
> In Mono we are planning on replacing the dependency on LibICU, as it is
> a huge library to link against, a big dependency for the time being, and
> it is not easy to partition.
> 
> We are currently moving to produce our own tables from the ICU data
> though, so it would only be a maintainer dependency, not a deployment
> dependency for us.

Is it possible to consider using the locale data from glibc?
I think there are more languages supported there, and the data is
sometimes more accurate.

Best regards
Keld