ICU / icudt26b.dat file on OS X

[jda]

>Hi All,
>
>Wow, I have found this big 8 MB file in the OS X !
>It is located in the
>
>     /usr/share/icu
>
>Please check that you also have it on your computers.
>Interesting, it looks that OS X 10.2 already have it also.
>
>This is interesting, because then we have chance to NOT distribute this 8MB
>file with Vcomponents folder for OS X.
>
>On the other hand may be better have it.
>-- then we get Vcomponents folder THE SAME for all platforms and products.
>
>BTW, that file can be made smaller.
>Not 8 MB but just 3.5 MB. May be even less.
>

Can you put the pathname in non-Unix terms please? I can only find an 
empty folder called ICU in the Application Support folder.

As to your question, I would very much like to *avoid* distributing 
the unicode library for OS X if possible! So I would certainly vote 
for allowing us to use the OS X version (we have to build different 
distribution packages for each platform anyway, so why not let us 
tailor them to best take advantage of the libraries already installed 
by the OS?

Jon