For what it's worth, SpiderMonkey has just added a dependency on ICU, so it might make sense to align with that. At least for Servo, if not for Rust itself.
On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Graydon Hoare <[email protected]> wrote: > On 11/04/2013 1:35 PM, Fredrik Håård wrote: > > Sorry if I was unclear; I meant a general-purpose codec for handling >> ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/**MAPPINGS/**<ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/MAPPINGS/**>more >> or less. Web stuff is out >> of scope for what I intend here (Although my 'penultimate' goal is to be >> able to implement MIME so that email handling can be implemented). >> > > I believe we'll wind up taking a dependency either on libICU or "things > provided by the OS" in cases where OS services are adequate (for example it > seems win32 has some conversion services built in). This topic intersects > pretty much every other thing provided by ICU and/or i18n / l10n APIs, and > will take a while to work out a reasonable strategy. I'll post more on this > soon. > > -Graydon > > > ______________________________**_________________ > Rust-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.mozilla.org/**listinfo/rust-dev<https://mail.mozilla.org/listinfo/rust-dev> >
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