On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 12:37 AM, Todd Blanchard <[email protected]> wrote: > They are practically the same thing. > > ICU was developed by Taligent which was a joint venture between Apple and > IBM. Makes sense that NSString and ICU's UnicodeString are pretty close in > implementation. ICU was also ported to Java for Sun by IBM. The point is - > this is a very elaborate chunk of code with far reach. If ICU is wrong on > some point - it is universally wrong and thus likely to be taken as "right" > as it is at least consistent. I think re-implementing it is folly TBH. Just > use it.
Apple seem to have moved on from NSString to support Unicode in a different way in Switft... > >> On Dec 8, 2015, at 15:52, EuanM <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Equally old are the NextStep Object C functions which are now embodied >> within MacOS X. >> > >
