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On 1/19/06, Lugovoi Nikolai <meadow.nnick / gmail.com> wrote:
> ==ICU4R v.0.1.0 - initial release ==
>
> = Abstract
>
> ICU4R is an attempt to provide better Unicode support for Ruby, based
> on ICU library.
>
> Project Site: http://rubyforge.org/projects/icu4r/
>
> Download: http://rubyforge.org/frs/download.php/8116/icu4r-0.1.0.tar.gz
>
> RDoc: http://icu4r.rubyforge.org/
>
> = Install Notes
>
> To build ICU4R you'll need GCC and ICU v3.4 libraries, which can be
> downloaded from
> http://ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/downloads.jsp
>
> Build and install:
> ruby extconf.rb && make && make check && make install
>
> = Features
>
> ICU4R is Ruby C-extension binding for ICU library.
> It is NOT mirroring full ICU object hierarchy, but is rather set of simple
> interfaces for some practically useful functionality, and provides:
>
> - UString : String-like class with internal UTF16 storage;
> - UCA rules for UString comparisons (<=>, casecmp);
> - Unicode regular expressions;
> - encoding(codepage) conversion;
> - Unicode normalization;
> - access to resource bundles, including ICU locale data;
> - transliteration, also rule-based;
>
> Bunch of locale-sensitive functions:
> - upcase/downcase;
> - string collation;
> - string search;
> - iterators over text line/word/char/sentence breaks;
> - message formatting (number/currency/string/time);
> - date and number parsing.
>
> == DISCLAIMER ==
>
> The code is slow and inefficient yet, can have many security and memory leaks,
> bugs, inconsistent documentation, incomplete test suite. Use it at
> your own risk.
>
> Critics, bug reports, feature requests are welcome :)
>
> WBR, Nikolai Lugovoi <meadow.nnick / gmail.com>
>
>
Great work. I'll check out next week.
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