Subject: CVS commit: pkgsrc/textproc/icu
From: Marc Recht
Date: 2007-03-23 13:51:13
Message id: 20070323125113.C2E8A2150A@cvs.netbsd.org

Log Message:
update to ICU 3.6

Major changes in ICU 3.6 include the following:
-	Unicode: ICU uses and supports Unicode 5.0, which is the latest major release \ 
of Unicode. Unicode 5.0 will be used in many operating systems and applications, \ 
and this version of ICU is important maintain interoperability with these new \ 
operating systems and applications. More information about Unicode 5.0 can be \ 
found in the Unicode press release.
-	Locale Data: ICU uses and supports data from Common Locale Data Repository \ 
(CLDR) 1.4, which includes many improvements in quality and quantity of data. \ 
There is 25% more CLDR locale data in 245 locales in ICU.
-	ICU4C Specific Changes
-	Charset Detection: A charset detection framework was added, which provides \ 
heuristics for detecting the charset for unlabeled sequences of bytes.
-	Layout: The font layout engine has support added for Tibetan, Sinhala and Old \ 
Hangul.
-	BiDi: The BiDi algorithm was enhanced to be more flexible and efficient
-	ICU Data Management: The new icupkg tool provides an easier way to manage \ 
ICU's data library. This tool allows you to add, update or remove data from \ 
ICU's data archive.
-	Time Zones The time zone data is modularized to allow easier building and \ 
updating of the data.
-	Word Boundaries: The Thai word break iteration was improved to be more \ 
accurate. Also dictionary based detection of Thai word boundaries is now active \ 
for all locales.
-	UText
-	The BreakIterator uses UText for abstract text processing.
-	64-bit indexing is now used to allow access to larger chunks of text.
-	API for read-only locking for security and robustness was added.
-	Performance
-	The u_sprintf/u_sscanf performance from the icuio library has been improved \ 
for number formatting/parsing.
-	Constructing a DateFormat is significantly faster for many locales.
-	Opening and closing a charset converter is significantly faster.
-	The UTF-8 transformation functions and macros are faster.
-	The UText API was improved for performance.
-	The collation open and close functions have a small performance improvement.

Files:
RevisionActionfile
1.52modifypkgsrc/textproc/icu/Makefile
1.13modifypkgsrc/textproc/icu/PLIST
1.14modifypkgsrc/textproc/icu/distinfo
1.11modifypkgsrc/textproc/icu/patches/patch-aa
1.9modifypkgsrc/textproc/icu/patches/patch-ab
1.8modifypkgsrc/textproc/icu/patches/patch-ae
1.8modifypkgsrc/textproc/icu/patches/patch-af