Re: possible ICU transition

2005-08-07 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
I've uploaded ICU 3.4. Once it clears new, people who depend upon icu28 or embed icu in their packages can try it. Read on if you care about ICU. Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Given all this, can anyone think of any reason why I should not start an ICU transition this weekend?

possible ICU transition

2005-08-05 Thread Jay Berkenbilt
The version of icu in debian is very old. I have recently taken over maintainership of the package. I had originally intended to wait until after the g++ transition had completed to do the ICU transition, but I'm now strongly considering building new ICU packages to upload to unstable before

Re: possible ICU transition

2005-08-05 Thread Andreas Fester
Jay, being involved in an i18n project currently, I also learned about ICU recently. I was a littlebit disappointed to find only a very old version in the Debian archive, so its very good to see that the package is still maintained and that you are working on the current 3.4 version :-) Given

Re: possible ICU transition

2005-08-05 Thread Steinar H. Gunderson
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 09:04:34PM +0200, Andreas Fester wrote: being involved in an i18n project currently, I also learned about ICU recently. I was a littlebit disappointed to find only a very old version in the Debian archive, so its very good to see that the package is still maintained and

Re: possible ICU transition

2005-08-05 Thread Andreas Fester
Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: While we're at all the i18n (is there a more proper list for this, BTW?) business: Is there a good way for a given locale of getting ordinal numbers? Ie. func(1) = “1st”, func(2) = “2nd”, func(3) = “3rd” etc. for LANG=en_US, func(1) = “1ère”, func(2) = “2ème”, func(3)

Re: possible ICU transition

2005-08-05 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 09:04:34PM +0200, Andreas Fester wrote: being involved in an i18n project currently, I also learned about ICU recently. I was a littlebit disappointed to find only a very old version in the Debian archive, so its very good to see that the

Re: possible ICU transition

2005-08-05 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Aug 05, 2005 at 12:05:59PM -0400, Jay Berkenbilt wrote: The version of icu in debian is very old. I have recently taken over maintainership of the package. I had originally intended to wait until after the g++ transition had completed to do the ICU transition, but I'm now strongly