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-The International Components for Unicode (ICU) is a C and C++ library that
-provides robust and full-featured Unicode support on a wide variety of
-platforms. The library provides:
+The International Components for Unicode (ICU) is a C and C++ library
+providing Unicode support (p.ex. character set conversions, locales,
+normalization, transliteration, etc.).
- Calendar support
- Character set conversions
- Collation (language-sensitive)
- Date & time formatting
- Locales (140+ supported)
- Message catalogs (resources)
- Message formatting
- Normalization
- Number & currency
- formatting
- Time zones
- Transliteration
- Word, line & sentence
- breaks
+More information on ICU can be found on the homepage
+WWW: http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/
-WWW: http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/icu/project/index.html
+- Bjoern A. Zeeb
+bzeeb+freebsdports@zabbadoz.net