# New Ticket Created by Kevin Falcone # Please include the string: [perl #16962] # in the subject line of all future correspondence about this issue. # <URL: http://rt.perl.org/rt2/Ticket/Display.html?id=16962 >
Someone asked on IRC this morning about what ICU is. They mentioned not finding it in the glossary, so here is an explanation and a link. -kevin diff -u -p -r1.6 glossary.pod --- glossary.pod 26 Aug 2002 03:02:26 -0000 1.6 +++ glossary.pod 3 Sep 2002 13:30:04 -0000 @@ -152,7 +152,18 @@ objects faster than memory) See also: L<"DOD"> +=head2 ICU + +International Components for Unicode + +ICU is a C and C++ library that provides support for Unicode on a +variety of platforms. It was added to Parrot with the 0.0.8 release to +provide future unicode support. + +http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/icu/project/ + =head2 PMC + PMC stands for Parrot Magic Cookie. (Or cracker, your choice) It's the -- "The algorithm to do that is extremely nasty. You might want to mug someone with it." -- M. Devine, Computer Science 340
