[Releasing] Proposal: Upgrade bundled ICU to version 53.1

[Thiago Macieira]

On Tuesday 02 September 2014 07:01:16 Koehne Kai wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I suggest that we ship 5.4.x binary packages with the latest ICU version:
> 53.1 .
> 
> http://site.icu-project.org/download/53
> 
> I've been using 53.1 locally on Windows since a while, and haven't spotted
> any issues. In general upgrades of the ICU version haven't been a problem
> in the past.
> 
> If there are no general objections I'll start producing Windows packages to
> http://download.qt-project.org/development_releases/prebuilt/icu/prebuilt/
> . Can't remember who did the Ubuntu / Red Hat packages last time?

+1, no objections from me.

We need to upgrade on Linux too because we can't rely on there being the same 
version across multiple distros.

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