The problem with ICU is that it's a rather large library, and mozilla already has it's own unicode system. That's we we opted on doing unicode support ourselves (less code duplication, and a smaller binary).
Cheers, Shawn Wilsher On Jan 24, 2008 11:35 PM, Dan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 25, 2008, at 7:26 AM, Myk Melez wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I'm working to enable FTS3 in the next version of Firefox [1] so > > that extenders can take advantage of it, although Firefox itself > > isn't using it for the next release. > > > > Given Firefox's international audience, it would be useful for FTS3 > > to support Unicode. We currently do this for upper(), lower(), and > > LIKE by redefining them with sqlite3_create_function [2]. > > > > For FTS3 it seems like we'd have to redefine the tokenizer and > > MATCH. Can that be done using sqlite3_create_function, and what's > > the status of the international support mentioned in a previous > > message on this list [3]? > > Hi Myk, > > The 'icu' and 'fts3' SQLite extensions can take advantage of the > ICU library to provide internationalization if it is available. > The ICU extension provides internationalized versions of upper(), > lower(), collation sequences and a REGEXP operator. Details > are available here: > > http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/fileview?f=sqlite/ext/icu/README.txt > > Fts3 has an API for creating new tokenizers. See here: > > http://www.sqlite.org/cvstrac/fileview?f=sqlite/ext/fts3/ > README.tokenizers > > One of the example tokenizers uses the ICU library for localization. > See the same document for details. It is built if the > SQLITE_ENABLE_ICU macro is defined when fts3 is compiled. > > Regards, > Dan. > > > > > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
