Re: [cross-project-issues-dev] re: Question about how to handle ICU...

[Thomas Hallgren <thomas@xxxxxxx>]

Paul Webster wrote:
> gs.
>
> For example, in the ICU case com.ibm.icu is the main bundle we ship
> with the platform, but a different bundle, com.ibm.icu.base provides
> the same API as com.ibm.icu but is about 20% the size (it only
> provides replacements for the main com.ibm.icu.text and
> com.ibm.icu.util).
Just for the record, the com.ibm.icu.base is just 65K compared to the 
main bundles 5.5M, so it's just above 1% in size.

One important note is that the com.ibm.icu.lang package is missing in 
the com.ibm.icu.base bundle and that actually deserves a special note. 
If the objective is to use the com.ibm.icu.lang.UCharacter and its 
isWhitespace() and isSpaceChar() methods in particular, then I would 
advice against that. Recent tests show that the standard 
java.lang.Character is more accurate in this respect so using the 
UCharacter variant and thereby adding an extra payload of 5.4M is a bad 
idea.

Regards,
Thomas Hallgren