My position is that it is costing us in interoperability (I mean lack thereof) by failing to use ICU. I don't see any issue about size.
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 6:00 PM, Vincent Hennebert <[email protected]>wrote: > On 18/06/13 06:46, Glenn Adams wrote: > > Is there a reason FOP doesn't use ICU for determining line break > > boundaries? The FOP implementation of UAX14 > (org.apache.fop.text.linebreak) > > seems to be out of date and basically unmaintained. According to [1], a > > number of Apache projects are using it, including PDFBox, Xalan, and > Xerces. > > I think the main reason in the past has been the size of the ICU4J jar > compared to FOP’s own jar: > http://markmail.org/thread/krkqlircefpuxlse > > I guess the topic could be revisited today. We could consider adding it > as an optional dependency, or acknowledge that full Unicode support is > taken for granted nowadays and use it by default. > > > > > [1] http://site.icu-project.org/#TOC-Apache-Projects > > > > Vincent >
