Valentina 2.0. -- What is your 3 DREAM features? // ICU

[Ruslan Zasukhin]

on 1/31/04 9:18 AM, Eric Forget at forgete at cafederic.com wrote:

>> Valentina 2.0 includes IBM ICU library.
>> 
>> We will use UTF16 as native encoding.
>> ICU itself can support 170 encodings. Although it take then 8MB.
>> 
>> I think we will put on site 2 builds of ICU
>>   3.5 MB lib with major languages
>>   8MB with ALL languages
> 
> I would prefer ICU being an optional thing. If my application is fully
> Unicode-based (like with Cocoa), I do not need ICU at all. Why I would like
> to increase the download size of my application of 3.5MB? (Ok say 1.6
> compressed)...

But Valentina kernel need it !!!

Oh, Eric.

Be prepared!

Valentina kernel 2.0 itself will be 3-4MB now.
Plus ICU.


> What you need to do is a normal API, which is all in Unicode and a side API
> (facultative), which require ICU.

I afraid this is very not easy, Eric.

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Best regards,
Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]
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