Package libicu36-dev-3.6.0-5

The International Components for Unicode (ICU) libraries provide robust and full-featured Unicode services on a wide variety of platforms. ICU supports the most current version of the Unicode standard, and they provide support for supplementary Unicode characters (needed for GB 18030 repertoire support). As computing environments become more heterogeneous, software portability becomes more important. ICU lets you produce the same results across all the various platforms you support, without sacrificing performance. It offers great flexibility to extend and customize the supplied services, which include: * Text: Unicode text handling, full character properties and character set conversions (500+ codepages) * Analysis: Unicode regular expressions; full Unicode sets; character, word and line boundaries * Comparison: Language sensitive collation and searching * Transformations: normalization, upper/lowercase, script transliterations (50+ pairs) * Locales: Comprehensive locale data (230+) and resource bundle architecture * Complex Text Layout: Arabic, Hebrew, Indic and Thai * Time: Multi-calendar and time zone * Formatting and Parsing: dates, times, numbers, currencies, messages and rule based Please note that this package is based on the ICU source provided by Apple, as the CoreFoundation kit contains the IBM libICU implementation.