Re: Newbie Questions

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Best Regards,

Ram Viswanadha

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From: "Dick Porter" <[email protected]>

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Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 3:46 AM

Subject: [Mono-list] New CultureInfo support



> I've just checked in the majority of the new CultureInfo support. It

> relies on IBM's libICU to do the actual work, though this new dependency

> is a compile-time option (if you don't have the library, you only have

> the Invariant locale available.)

>

> The ICU (International Components for Unicode) library gives us full

> language-sensitive collation and searching, and locale data. (It has

> lots of other Unicode support features, but we don't use them yet.) It

> is available from http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu under an X-style

> licence. The library is known to work on Linux, AIX, HPUX, Solaris and

> Windows platforms.

>

> - Dick

>

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gerhard Wenzl" <[email protected]>
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Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 11:09 AM
Subject: Re: Newbie Questions


> > markus wrote:
> > Aside from .Net _applications_ using ICU (about which I don't have any
> information), I heard that
> > the "Mono" project which implements a CLR/.Net engine itself on
> non-Windows platforms uses ICU.
> > Someone else on the list may have a link.
> >
>
> the mono project can be found at http://www.go-mono.com, but I haven't
seen
> any ICU code there.
> BTW:if you build a .Net applications in Managed C++, you can call native
C++
> code (ICU calls)
> in a quite simply way.
>
> gerhard
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