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From:
Jonathan Leto
Date:
January 29, 2010 14:10
Subject:
Re: Use ICU for Unicode in Perl?
Message ID:
9aaadf9c1001291409u417469ccl3f979c19531b4ee9@mail.gmail.com
Howdy,

[snip]
>>
>> Here is a list of Fedora 12 RPMs that have libicu dependencies:
>>
>> ----------
>> $ repoquery --whatrequires --alldeps libicu | sort
>> ...
>> parrot-0:1.6.0-1.fc12.i686
>> parrot-0:2.0.0-2.fc12.i686
>> parrot-devel-0:1.6.0-1.fc12.i686
>> parrot-devel-0:2.0.0-2.fc12.i686
>> rakudo-0:0.0.2009.09_1.6.0-2.fc12.i686
>> rakudo-0:0.0.2010.01_2.0.0-2.fc12.i686
>
> So, it's not unknown in the Perl world. Perhaps our friends for the
> other side may be able to share some knowledge?
>
> Abigail

I have not had to deal with ICU much as a Parrot core dev, but it
seems to stay out of our way and get things done. Parrot can be built
with or without ICU, so it does not act as a roadblock if someone
wants to run Parrot without ICU (for instance, in an embedded system.)

-- 
Jonathan "Duke" Leto
jonathan@leto.net
http://leto.net

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