Re: Support (lib)ICU for IDN

Jeffrey Walton via curl-users <[email protected]>
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On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 3:24 AM Daniel Engberg via curl-users
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> First of all I'd like you thank everyone involved for such a great piece
> of software. Would it be possible to consider adding ICU support for
> IDN? It's a well represented in many distributions and platforms in
> addition to utilized by many projects including libpsl so I think it
> would be a nice addition to curl.

Be careful with ICU. It fails to build from source on some platforms
on occasion. When it fails to build, dependent software becomes
unavailable to install. See, for example,
https://www.google.com/search?q=ICU+FTBFS . (FTBFS is Failure to Build
from Source).

Libidn2 and libunicode usually build on all platforms. I don't recall
them failing to build from source or blocking other software.

Jeff
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