RE: Is ICU supported on z/OS and z/VM platforms?

George,

I do not see z/VM is listed as one of the ICU supported platforms.
Is z/VM supported?  How is a "reference" platform different from a
"Regularly tested" platform?

Also, z/OS has a "Support for Unicode Using Conversion Services" product.
DB2 and most IBM languages use it.
Under what situations, should programmers use ICU instead of z/OS "Support
for Unicode Using Conversion Services"
On the mainframe platform? 

Thanks in advance 

Suelee
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of George Rhoten
Sent: Monday, November 17, 2003 4:34 PM
To: Srini Balasubramaniam
Cc: icu list
Subject: RE: Is ICU supported on z/OS and z/VM platforms?


In this case, ICU means ICU4C (no space in the name).

The ICU project has three subprojects: ICU4C, ICU4J and ICU4JNI.  ICU4C is 
written in C and C++.  ICU4J is written in Java.  ICU4JNI is a Java 
wrapper around some of the C and C++ code using the Java JNI interface. 
All three subprojects use the same versioning scheme (as of 2.0 and 
onwards).

To clarify Markus' comments...  z/OS is not a reference platform, but 
ICU4C builds on z/OS.  We try our best to make ICU4C build and test on 
z/OS, but we depend on other contributors to do this for us.

George Rhoten
IBM Globalization Center of Competency/ICU  San José, CA, USA




"Srini Balasubramaniam" <[email protected]>
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11/17/2003 03:51 PM
 
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Folks,

I am new to ICU. I am confused with the naming of ICU 4C and ICU 2.6.1.

What are ICU 4C and ICU 2.6.1. Is 2.6.1 is a minor release in ICU 4C or both
are different release cycles?

Thanks in advance
Srini

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Markus Scherer
Sent: Friday, November 14, 2003 4:16 PM
To: icu list
Subject: Re: Is ICU supported on z/OS and z/VM platforms?

Yu, Suelee wrote:
> Is ICU supported on z/OS and z/VM platforms?

Yes. Please see the Platform Installation Notes on the download page for the
latest ICU release: http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/download/2.6.1/

Note that we are planning to release ICU 2.8 in December.

For support questions please use the icu4c-support mailing list as noted on
http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/archives/

Best regards,
markus

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