ICU (International Components for Unicode) is a set for C/C++ and Java
librairies providing Unicode and globalization support. icu4c is the
C/C++ version.
ICU services include code page conversion, collation (comparison using
locale-specific ordering), locale-wise formatting, Unicode regexp and
bidirectionnal text handling.
ICU is available under an open source non-copyleft licence.
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