From 55167fbd5060c684e6c79f123cc5d2216e84aa9a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Markus Scherer Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 19:07:33 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] ICU-7611 add readme.txt X-SVN-Rev: 28136 --- tools/unicode/c/readme.txt | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 32 insertions(+) create mode 100644 tools/unicode/c/readme.txt diff --git a/tools/unicode/c/readme.txt b/tools/unicode/c/readme.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..c1e02a4178 --- /dev/null +++ b/tools/unicode/c/readme.txt @@ -0,0 +1,32 @@ +# Copyright (C) 2010, International Business Machines +# Corporation and others. All Rights Reserved. +# +# created on: 2010jun04 +# created by: Markus W. Scherer + +These tools parse Unicode Character Database files and generate +data files (text, source code and binary) for use in ICU. +They are used during the Unicode beta period and after a Unicode release. + +For a log of actions and changes for recent Unicode version upgrades of ICU, see +http://bugs.icu-project.org/trac/browser/icu/trunk/source/data/unidata/changes.txt + +Since the Unicode 5.2 upgrade, these tools have been moved out of the ICU source +tree to here. They have not been fully tested and probably need some more work +and setup. They might benefit from additional shell or Python scripts. + +There are autoconf makefiles (Makefile.in) and Visual C++ project files (.vcproj) +in the subfolders. They are copied over from the ICU source tree and will not +work without modifications. However, I started to use CMake (CMakeLists.txt) +which is much simpler, and if it works well enough then I plan to just +delete the old makefiles and project files. The CMake files will currently +work only on Linux, just because I hardcoded the ICU library filenames +(e.g., libicuuc.so). +I should use more variables to make the CMake files more portable, and should +use ICU's installed icu-config or Makefile.inc to get the values for these +variables. +(If and when ICU itself uses CMake, we should be able to point to its modules.) + +Things will improve as I work on Unicode 6... + +markus