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
>
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