On 12/8/15, Todd Blanchard <tblanchard at mac.com> wrote:
> I just want to second Dale's endorsement of the ICU library.  It has been
> around a long time (originally developed by Taligent) and it provides the
> base unicode capabilities for an awful lot of software.
>
> I think it would make more sense to bring icu into Smalltalk as a
> NativeBoost library than to spend resources reimplementing and maintaining
> it.
>
> -Todd Blanchard

ICU already seems to be available for Smalltalk accessed through wrappers

http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/6234

--Hannes

>> On Dec 8, 2015, at 11:20, Dale Henrichs <dale.henrichs at gemtalksystems.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> On 12/07/2015 11:31 PM, H. Hirzel wrote:
>>> Dale
>>>
>>> Thank you for your answer with links to the ICU library and the notes
>>> about classes in Gemstone. Noteworthy that you have a class Utf8 as a
>>> subclass of ByteArray.
>>>
>>> I understand that Gemstone uses the ICU library and thus does not
>>> implement the algorithms in Smalltalk.
>>>
>>> I am currently looking into what the  ICU  library provides.
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