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