[Interest] Minimal MSVC-built ICU DLLs available for download

[Koehne Kai]

> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: rpzrpzrpz at gmail.com [mailto:rpzrpzrpz at gmail.com]
> Gesendet: Montag, 25. Januar 2016 12:51
> An: Koehne Kai <Kai.Koehne at theqtcompany.com>; Elvis Stansvik
> <elvstone at gmail.com>
> Cc: interest at qt-project.org Interest <interest at qt-project.org>
> Betreff: Re: [Interest] Minimal MSVC-built ICU DLLs available for download
> 
> Koehne:
> 
> What does that mean for unicode support with qt5base since qt 5.6 are not
> linking icu?

You'll miss support for some - more exotic -  text codecs.

Also, you might miss some timezone data, if Windows does not provide it.

Finally, if you target Windows versions older than Windows 7, you'll loose
numeric string collation.

In summary, most people won't notice :)

> Is this going to require that we build our own ICU so that QString is unicode
> ready?

No.

Regards

Kai