Re: [icu-support] Planning to make internationalization with icu support

[dd <dur...@gm...>]

Many thanks Markus.
DD

On Tue, Nov 4, 2014 at 9:57 AM, Markus Scherer <mar...@gm...> wrote:

> Welcome to internationalization :-)
>
> On Sun, Nov 2, 2014 at 12:12 AM, dd <dur...@gm...> wrote:
>
>>   Right now, my application doesn't support Unicode string comparisons
>> like string has ISO Latin characters. I would like to fulfill this by
>> taking help of icu.
>>
>>   Is it right choice?
>>
>
> It's a good an commonly used choice, anyway.
>
> If you compare strings for showing sorted lists to users, you will need to
> use a Collator. See http://userguide.icu-project.org/collation
>
> If you compare strings for internal processing, you will need
> normalization and case-folding, possibly via the combined NFKC_Casefold
> form.
>
> Please take a look at the User Guide and the API references.
>
>   What are the disadvantages with icu?
>>
>
> As with any library, you need to think about integration and packaging.
>
> ICU might already be built into some of the platforms or frameworks you
> are going to support. If they expose the functionality you need, then you
> don't need to ship your own copy of ICU there. For example, Android SDK,
> iOS, and the JavaScript i18n API in many modern browsers make subsets of
> ICU functionality available.
>
> Best regards,
> markus
>
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