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The home of the ICU project source code.

10 mentions on Hacker News by 10 people: 1 story, 9 comments · first 2018-08-15 · latest 2025-08-18

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  1. …from human languages evolving over time, so they can be encoded in as a few as a thousand rules : https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/tree/main/icu4c/source/da...
    comment by matja · 2025-08-18 · in I Prefer RST to Markdown (2024)
  2. …for Unicode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Components_for_U... unicode-org/icu: https://github.com/unicode-org/icu Microsoft/ICU: https://github.com/microsoft/icu IDN: Internationalized domain name:…
    comment by westurner · 2024-12-07 · in Debian opens a can of username worms
  3. …work); this is not easy, but the earlier you do it the less dramatic the changes will be (check out https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/tree/main/icu4c); - don't allocate the lines individually (as you do now with malloc, having looked at…
    comment by jll29 · 2024-08-31 · in Show HN: A retro terminal text editor for GNU/Linux coded in C (C-edit)
  4. …that are simple in implementation even in extremely popular libraries. E. g. ICU search method: https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/blob/a7a2fdbcf257fa22c7a2... ICU is used by Python, Windows or OpenOffice.
    comment by adam_oxla · 2023-08-21 · in FreeBSD replaces bubblesort with mergesort on SYSINTs
  5. …library (International Components for Unicode): https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/ICU-13694 https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/pull/2213 This affects all packages that have icu as a dependency, one of them being Node.js.…
    comment by vlasky · 2023-01-12 · in Setting the TZ environment variable avoids thousands of system calls (2017)
  6. No, the ICU dictionaries are seen at: https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/tree/main/icu4c/source/da... I assume at compile time it's converted to a more efficient query format
    comment by krackers · 2021-09-13 · in Reverse-Engineering Apple Dictionary (2020)
  7. …in this you should take a look at Chrome's break engine source code for japanese/chinese: https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/blob/778d0a6d1d46faa724ea... https://chromium.googlesource.com/v8/v8/+/refs/heads/master/...
    comment by kanobo · 2020-08-14 · in How to tokenize Japanese in Python
  8. …it looks like the source code for the Break engine (used by Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) is here: https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/blob/778d0a6d1d46faa724ea... and then according to the LICENSE file[1], the dictionary : # The word list…
    comment by chch · 2020-05-08 · in How does Chrome decide what to highlight when you double-click Japanese text?
  9. The underlying library is actually using a single dictionary for both Chinese and Japanese https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/tree/7814980f51bca2000a96...
    comment by yorwba · 2020-05-08 · in How does Chrome decide what to highlight when you double-click Japanese text?