internationalization Getting started with internationalization Installation or Setup

Example

ICU(International Components for Unicode) can be installed as a library for the following languages:

• Java: ICU4J
• C/C++: ICU4C
• Python: pyICU
• Perl: Wrappers for ICU (PICU)
• C#: ICU-dotnet
• Erlang: icu4e
• Ruby: ffi-icu
• Haskell: text-icu
• Lua: ICU4Lua

Here is a series of installion steps for a few implementations:

• ICU4J:

  • place icu4j.jar in your CLASSPATH
    • Optionally, place icu4j-charset.jar in your CLASSPATH for charset API support
  • To build ICU4J, you will need JDK 7+ and Apache Ant 1.9+
  • Set the JDK and Ant environment variables
    • set JAVA_HOME=C:\jdk1.8.0
    • set ANT_HOME=C:\apache-ant
    • set PATH=%JAVA_HOME%\bin;%ANT_HOME%\bin;%PATH%
  • Run the desired target defined in build.xml. The default target is "jar" which compiles ICU4J library class files and create ICU4J jar files. For example:
    • C:\icu4j>ant

• ICU4C

  • Place the path to ICU4C in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable so that dynamic linker can find it. For example:
    • export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/icu/lib
  • Or Windows:
    • set PATH=%PATH%;C:\icu\dist\bin; set INCLUDE=%INCLUDE%;C:\icu\dist\include; set LIB=%LIB%;C:\icu\dist\bin
  • Run the configure script and build ICU4C using a makefile:
    • ./configure --prefix=/opt/icu
  • Or CygWin:
    • set PATH=%PATH%;C:\Cygwin\bin C:> dos2unix * C:> dos2unix -f configure
    • C:> "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x86
    • C:> bash runConfigureICU Cygwin/MSVC -prefix=/cygdrive/c/icu/dist
  • Run make and make install:
    • make && make install