ICU functionality support in Rust

[filmil]

This is similar to issue #7 in that it's calling for support for a well understood library in Rust.

Also mentioned in https://www.arewewebyet.org/topics/i18n/

Full disclosure, my project (Fuchsia OS) needs ICU today, so we started by wrapping ICU4C, learning from other work in this space. See references below for details.

It's hard to do justice to all the references to prior art, but I'll try, and will try to backfill with more information where possible.

Bindings

• https://github.com/servo/rust-icu
• https://github.com/fullcontact/icu-sys

Related issues

• Add robust unicode support (probably via ICU bindings) rust-lang/rust#14656
• Add robust unicode support (probably via ICU bindings) rust-lang/rfcs#797

[filmil]

@zbraniecki @sffc
You may want to check this out: https://github.com/google/rust_icu
Cheers!

[sffc]

Cool, that was quick! Glad you got it approved. I will now look through the wrappers you've made and open issues on the new repo with suggestions.

[filmil]

Thanks that will be great!

…

On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 3:57 PM Shane F. Carr ***@***.***> wrote: Cool, that was quick! Glad you got it approved. I will now look through the wrappers you've made and open issues on the new repo with suggestions. — You are receiving this because you authored the thread. Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#8>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAB4GMB264KNNRPXD4YFZSTQTTLE7ANCNFSM4JDFRE7A> .

[filmil]

In the meantime two major developments happened:

1. We started https://github.com/unicode-org/icu4x
2. We have https://github.com/google/rust_icu

With these two in existence I think this particular issue (which is, Unicode-on-rust getting more traction) has been handled.

Closing.