[RFC] Use ICU in wine ?

Dmitry Timoshkov dmitry at baikal.ru
Mon Oct 10 02:16:26 CDT 2011


Rafał Mużyło <galtgendo at o2.pl> wrote:

> Right now, wine claims to use DUCET data for lingustic sorting,

What's DUCET and where do you see Wine does claim to use it?

> but by
> section 1.9.2 of that document (as of version 6.0.0), uses it in a wrong
> way.

Could you please be slightly more specific?

> The result of it are bugs such as #10767 and #9583.

Looks like that you don't understand what those bugs are about.

> A possible way around it would beby using ICU to get language specific
> tailoring and applying some of wine-specific for the parts addressed by
> #10767.

Once you uderstand the problems you may see that adding ICU to Wine
depencies will create much more problems than it's supposedly will
solve.

-- 
Dmitry.



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