On 2 Apr 2012, at 7:25pm, Richard Hipp <d...@sqlite.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 2, 2012 at 2:03 PM, Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org> wrote:
> 
>> I think ... a higher priority than that would be handling Unicode
>> correctly.  And having Unicode support would be useful in writing the code
>> which handles dates.
> 
> size of SQLite library:  approx 500 KB
> size of ICU library: approx 21,919 KB
> 
> The ICU library (needed to handle Unicode "correctly") is over 40x larger
> than SQLite.  Can you understand then why we don't want to make SQLite
> dependent upon ICU?

Yep.  That's why you don't do it.  And handling other things to make data 
human-readable using Unicode characters would be wrong too.

Simon.

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