Open Bug 1815871 Opened 3 years ago Updated 1 year ago

Switch normalization, collation, and IDNA from ICU4C to ICU4X

Categories

(Core :: Internationalization, task)

Product:
Core
Component:
Internationalization
Type:
task

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People

(Reporter: hsivonen, Unassigned)

References

(Depends on 1 open bug, Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

Normalization, collation, and IDNA form a feature cluster that could be switched from ICU4C to ICU4X without affecting other components. There is an upstream configuration option UCONFIG_NO_NORMALIZATION for turning these off on the ICU4C side. (Making Firefox compile with that option requires bug 1814862 to be fixed first.)

This bug depends on https://github.com/unicode-org/icu4x/issues/2850 from ICU4X.

Also, this needs either https://github.com/unicode-org/icu4x/issues/58 to be fixed for locale enumeration or a Gecko-specific hack to carry the local list outside ICU4X itself.

Furthermore, it would be nice to have HarfBuzz-related ICU4X issues fixed, but alternatively it would be feasible to route some HarfBuzz callbacks to ICU4C and others to ICU4X.

Not a strict blocker but a blocker if we want to get the performance of normalization right:
https://github.com/unicode-org/icu4x/issues/4256

See Also: → https://github.com/unicode-org/icu4x/issues/4256
Depends on: 1878907
No longer depends on: 1730706
Depends on: 1886953
Depends on: 1889536
Depends on: icu_normalizer
Depends on: icu_harfbuzz
Depends on: icu_collator

Moving bug 1878907 deeper in the dependency tree.

No longer depends on: 1878907
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