Re: icu -- is it the "recommended" OpenLDAP unicode implementation?

[Howard Chu <hyc@symas.com>]

Xin LI wrote:
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> Hi,
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> I'd like to get an inquiry about the state of OpenLDAP's unicode
> implementation.  Recently there is some reports that the FreeBSD port of
> OpenLDAP 2.4.x will pick up icu automatically if it is installed,
> according to the configure script, it seems that there is no way to
> disable this behavior (i.e. by --disable-icu or something similar), so
> it seems that a patch will be necessary if the user does not want to use
> icu.
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> So my question is that, is it recommended to use icu?  I am thinking
> about making icu an mandatory dependency of the port, but I guess it
> would be good to ask the developers before making such changes :)

Nothing in the current code base actually uses icu. That configure check was 
added in anticipation of future work. It's safe to ignore it for now.

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