ICU4N 60.1.0-alpha.436

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This is a prerelease version of ICU4N. 
dotnet add package ICU4N --version 60.1.0-alpha.436                

                    
                

            
NuGet\Install-Package ICU4N -Version 60.1.0-alpha.436
This command is intended to be used within the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio, as it uses the NuGet module's version of Install-Package. 
<PackageReference Include="ICU4N" Version="60.1.0-alpha.436" />
For projects that support PackageReference, copy this XML node into the project file to reference the package. 
paket add ICU4N --version 60.1.0-alpha.436                

                    
                

            
#r "nuget: ICU4N, 60.1.0-alpha.436"
#r directive can be used in F# Interactive and Polyglot Notebooks. Copy this into the interactive tool or source code of the script to reference the package. 
// Install ICU4N as a Cake Addin
#addin nuget:?package=ICU4N&version=60.1.0-alpha.436&prerelease

// Install ICU4N as a Cake Tool
#tool nuget:?package=ICU4N&version=60.1.0-alpha.436&prerelease

International Components for Unicode

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ICU4N is a set of .NET libraries providing Unicode and Globalization support for software applications, a .NET port of the popular ICU4J project.

This is a port of ICU4J, version 60.1. We have ported about 50% of the code, and while we aren't planning to add any additional features it is still a work in progress.

Features

Here are some of the major features that have been ported:

  1. BreakIterator
  2. RuleBasedBreakIterator
  3. Normalizer
  4. Normalizer2
  5. FilteredNormalizer2
  6. UnicodeSet
  7. Collator
  8. RuleBasedCollator
  9. Transliterator
  10. RuleBasedTransliterator
  11. RuleBasedNumberFormat - only formatting from number > string is supported by calling members of the ICU4N.Text.FormatNumberRuleBased class or by using them as extension methods from System.Byte, System.Int16, System.Int32, System.Int64, System.Int128, System.Numerics.BigInteger, System.SByte, System.IntPtr, System.UInt16, System.UInt32, System.UInt64, System.UInt128, System.Half, System.Single, System.Double, or System.Decimal.

There are several other features too numerous to mention, but APIs are currently in flux between releases. We have over 4200 passing tests, most failures are just due to missing dependencies.

NuGet Packages

Install-Package ICU4N -Pre

The package structure is as follows:

Documentation

We have converted most of the documentation comments so Visual Studio Intellisense works. However, for full API docs the best source at the moment is the ICU4J API Reference. There is also a lot of other great info on the ICU project's web site, such as the Feature Comparison Page.

Managing Resources

IMPORTANT: The version of resources that is used must be at the same version as ICU4N.

There are 2 ways to deploy resources with ICU4N.

  1. Using Satellite Assemblies

    This is the default and recommended way to use ICU4N resources. Using satellite assemblies to manage resources allows you to include specific neutral cultures or include them all by default.

  2. Using Resource Files

    Using resource files allows you to finely tune the amount of data that is distributed with your project by including/excluding specific features as well as cultures.

    NOTE: ICU4N does not shadow copy these files. It is not recommended to use resource files to deploy resources if you are using an "always up" service (such as ASP.NET) and intend to use xCopy deployment, since the resource files may be locked by your application when you try to overwrite them.

Default Satellite Assemblies

By default, ICU4N includes a dependency on ICU4N.Resources, which includes satellite assemblies for all features and languages. For most projects, this should suffice.

For class libraries that are deployed in public systems such as NuGet, it is recommended to use the default set of resource data (the full set) to allow end users to utilize built in features of the .NET SDK to exclude resources that don't apply to them.

NOTE: For projects that target .NET Framwork prior to version net462, the dependency is on ICU4N.Resources.NETFramework4.0 instead. This package contains exactly the same files as ICU4N.Resources and only exists to work around the fact that NuGet doesn't support a single target framework to deploy satellite assemblies to targets below net45 as well as targets that support netstandard2.0 (which supports net462 and higher).

Filtering Satellite Assemblies

ICU4N contains more than 750 cultures which use more than 18MB of disk space. If you are publishing an application and wish to reduce the distribution size of your application, ICU4N supports the SatelliteResourceLanguages property. Although ICU provides support for both specific and neutral cultures at runtime, the satellite assemblies are packaged as .NET neutral culture packages to eliminate issues with ICU locale names that .NET doesn't recognize. All specific cultures (such as en-GB or fr-CA) are packaged in the satellite assembly with the corresponding neutral culture (in this case en and fr respectively).

There are 4 special cases where locale names and culture names differ between ICU4N locale names and the satellite assembly names. For these locales, the .NET culture name must be used to filter the satellite assemblies even though the ICU locale name can be specified in the constructor of the UCultureInfo class.

Language Name ICU4N Locale Name .NET Culture Name
Quechua qu quz
Cantonese yue zh
Cantonese (Simplified) yue-Hans zh-Hans
Cantonese (Traditional) yue-Hant zh-Hant
Example

Using the SatelliteResourceLanguages property to only include the languages English, Spanish, and French in your distribution.

<PropertyGroup>
  <SatelliteResourceLanguages>en;es;fr</SatelliteResourceLanguages>
</PropertyGroup>

This will enable ICU4N to support all variants of these languages for all ICU features and exclude the resources for any other language from the distribution.

NOTE: SatelliteResourceLanguages applies to all resources for dependencies of your project, not just those in ICU4N.Resources. If another library includes support for a specific culture and you want to use it in your application, you should include that specific culture name in SatelliteResourceLanguages even though it does not specifically apply to ICU4N.

Custom Satellite Assemblies

In addition to filtering out cultures, ICU4N supports adding new cultures by compiling and packaging a new set of satellite assemblies to deploy with your application. The tools to do this are still a work in progress and there is not yet an official procedure for compiling custom satellite assemblies. You must follow the same naming conventions for resource files for ICU4N to discover any new files that are added, but do note these are still in flux and may change from one release of ICU4N to the next. The version of resources used must exactly match the version of ICU4N. Unfortunately, Microsoft's documentation on creating custom satellite assemblies is extremely out-of-date so it is recommended to use an LLM such as ChatGPT to get some direction on how to accomplish this using the .NET SDK rather than the old way of using al.exe.

Excluding ICU4N.Resources

To replace the satellite assemblies that are shipped with ICU4N, use the ExcludeAssets feature of MSBuild to exclude the default set of satellite assemblies from the build.

    <PackageReference Include="ICU4N.Resources"
                      Version="<the specific version of ICU4N.Resources>"
                      ExcludeAssets="all" />

NOTE: At the time of this writing, all versions of MSBuild have a bug where satellite assemblies that use 3-letter language codes are not copied to the build and/or publish output. ICU4N.Resources includes a patch in the ICU4N.Resources.CopyPatch.targets file. It is recommended that you use a NuGet package and include this file along with a .targets file named $(PackageId).targets that includes ICU4N.Resources.CopyPatch.targets and the properties it requires in its buildTransitive folder.

Custom Resource Files

Resource files can be used to reduce the total amount of resource data even further by excluding both features and cultures that are not being used. Resource files are automatically detected if they are in the <assembly_directory>/data/<icuversion>/<feature> directory. The default set of resource files can be downloaded from Maven for the ICU4J version corresponding to this version of ICU4N. Simply download the main icu4j.jar file. This file can be extracted with a Zip utility. The resource data can be found in the /com/ibm/icu/impl/data/ directory.

Reducing resource data is an advanced topic. See the ICU Data topic to decide the best approach for which resources to include.

Resources will be detected automatically if they are in the /data/ directory. Note that including the versioned subdirectory (such as icudt60b) is required.

When including custom resource data with ICU4N, be sure to exclude the ICU4N.Resources assets from the build as described in Excluding ICU4N.Resources.

Building and Testing

To build the project from source, see the Building and Testing documentation.

Saying Thanks

If you find this library to be useful, please star us on GitHub and consider a sponsorship so we can continue bringing you great free tools like this one. It really would make a big difference!

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NuGet packages (11)

Showing the top 5 NuGet packages that depend on ICU4N:

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ICU4N.Transliterator

Transliteration support (phonetic conversion from one script to another) for ICU4N. ICU (International Components for Unicode) is a set of libraries providing Unicode and Globalization support for software applications. ICU4N is a .NET port of ICU4J.
ICU4N.LanguageData

International language compiled resources for ICU4N. ICU (International Components for Unicode) is a set of libraries providing Unicode and Globalization support for software applications. ICU4N is a .NET port of ICU4J.
ICU4N.CurrencyData

International currency compiled resources for ICU4N. ICU (International Components for Unicode) is a set of libraries providing Unicode and Globalization support for software applications. ICU4N is a .NET port of ICU4J.
ICU4N.Collation

Rule-based collation support for ICU4N. ICU (International Components for Unicode) is a set of libraries providing Unicode and Globalization support for software applications. ICU4N is a .NET port of ICU4J.
ICU4N.RegionData

International region compiled resources for ICU4N. ICU (International Components for Unicode) is a set of libraries providing Unicode and Globalization support for software applications. ICU4N is a .NET port of ICU4J.

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apache/lucenenet
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60.1.0-alpha.402 107,823 4/2/2023
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60.1.0-alpha.400 128 3/3/2023 60.1.0-alpha.400 is deprecated because it is no longer maintained.
60.1.0-alpha.356 223,297 1/15/2022
60.1.0-alpha.355 16,982 10/24/2021
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https://github.com/NightOwl888/ICU4N/releases/tag/v60.1.0-alpha.436

This is an early prerelease. Not all features are fully functional yet, and there may still be some gaps in functionality that haven't been accounted for. See https://github.com/NightOwl888/ICU4N for more info about what is functioning and what is not.