On Thu, Dec 10, 2015 at 12:37 AM, Todd Blanchard <tblanchard@mac.com> wrote:
They are practically the same thing.
ICU was developed by Taligent which was a joint venture between Apple and IBM. Makes sense that NSString and ICU's UnicodeString are pretty close in implementation. ICU was also ported to Java for Sun by IBM. The point is - this is a very elaborate chunk of code with far reach. If ICU is wrong on some point - it is universally wrong and thus likely to be taken as "right" as it is at least consistent. I think re-implementing it is folly TBH. Just use it.
Apple seem to have moved on from NSString to support Unicode in a different way in Switft...
On Dec 8, 2015, at 15:52, EuanM <euanmee@gmail.com> wrote:
Equally old are the NextStep Object C functions which are now embodied within MacOS X.