Re: ICU

[Bruno Haible <bruno clisp org>]

> > ICU exist today and works just fine on solaris and is widely used.
>
> Yes, but you see, nobody uses ICU, and it's no easy to change.

ICU is a "you get all functionality you may need" library. This is appealling
for people who make big projects.

But we are searching solutions where the functionalities (Unicode,
Locales, rendering) are separate libraries. It's easier in the long run
to drop/exchange smaller modules than a big one.

Also, libicu relies on C++. Which means the ABI is dependent on the g++
version.

Well, 'mono' uses ICU. Apparently they had some problems in the i18n area
and needed to be fast, so they adopted ICU.

Bruno