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On Tuesday, June 3, 2014 12:45:44 AM UTC+2, Steven R. Loomis (IBM) wrote:
>
> Hello,
> I would like to contribute some changes to support i18n use.
> I work on ICU at IBM, and it's my understanding that there is a CCLA sent 
> in already.
>

Yes, indeed!
 

>
> For background, I am working on trying to get ICU on by default in Node. 
> https://github.com/joyent/node/pull/7719
>

Cool!
 

>
>
> I've opened three bugs:
>

Thank you, I cc'd some folks and added comments to them
 

>
> * https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=3345 -  Make 
> breakiterator optional. This detects whether break iteration is turned off 
> in the ICU you are built against.
>   Saves ~1MB of code (not counting data).
>
> * https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=3348 - bug fixes
>  This does some error checking if ICU wasn't able to load its data.
>   This isn't a complete fix, but turns crashers (SEGV) into "soft" errors 
> (node exits with an error message). 
>
> And the more complicated one..
> * https://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=3344 - 
> InitializeICUDirectory
>   This just sets u_setDataDirectory() to tell ICU where to load its data, 
> or if the param is null, it sets a "small" built in data pack, just 
> en+root  and calls u_setCommonData()..
>
>  An alternate model could be to just have two new APIs:
>   InitializeICUDirectory( path .. ) 
>   InitializeICUData( void *data .. ) 
> The existing function, InitializeICU( const char *file ) could be kept, no 
> conflict there. Just document to call only one of the functions.
>
> * As to building ICU itself, I have some new gyp+bash code, which might be 
> better gyp+python, but have not disturbed at all how v8 builds against 
> chromium's ICU. 
>
>
We're directly using chromium's ICU, however, it's possible to also use the 
system's ICU library or your own version.

best
-jochen


 
> Please let me know how best to proceed.
> Regards,
> Steven
>
>

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