[Xapian-discuss] unicode libraries

[Olly Betts]

On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 09:59:52PM -0500, Peter Karman wrote:
> There was a thread here a little while back about which encoding library 
> to use within Xapian.
> 
> Was IBM's library ever considered? 
> http://www-306.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/downloads.jsp

Yes, that's actually where that thread started:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.search.xapian.devel/658

But it uses UTF-16 internally and is rather large (it includes lots of
i18n and l10n features we're never going to need), so I think there are
better options for us, at least for the core library.  Adding a large
dependency to Omega is perhaps less of an issue.

Cheers,
    Olly