[Development] QLocale work

[lars.knoll at nokia.com]

On 1/18/12 1:42 AM, "ext John Layt" <jlayt at kde.org> wrote:

>Splitting up some related issues into separate emails to make it easier
>for 
>people to address.
>
>Which ICU version to use?
>
>The latest ICU version is 4.8.  See See
>http://site.icu-project.org/download
>for detailed release notes.
>
>OS X 10.6 shipped with ICU 4.0.
>
>The earliest versios of major distro's to ship at least 4.0 are:
>
> * openSuse 11.1 shipped Dec 2008 with ICU 4.0
> * Fedora 10 shipped Nov 2008 with ICU 4.0
> * Ubuntu Lucid LTS shipped Apr 2010 with ICU 4.2
> * Debian Squeeze shipped Oct 2011 with ICU 4.4
> 
>Harmattan shipped with ICU 4.4, and Android 1.6 possibly used ICU 4.2.
>Windows doesn't ship ICU so we get to choose.
>
>So ICU 4.0 seems the minimum version to target, although we lose some
>nice API 
>and features as a result.  ICU 4.0 implements Unicode 5.1 and CLDR 1.6.

4.0 is certainly a minimum version. Do you know which ICU versions did the
upgrade to 5.2 and 6.0?

Lars