IBM Classes for Unicode Project
Get educated
The IBM Classes for Unicode (ICU) is a collaborative software development project dedicated to providing robust, full-featured, commercial-quality, and freely available Unicode support on a wide variety of platforms. This project is jointly managed by a group of companies and individual volunteers throughout the world, using the Internet and the Web to communicate, plan, and develop the server environment and its related documentation.
The ICU project is licensed under the IBM Public License, which has been approved by the Open Source Initiative.
Learn about internationalization
A short history of the project and some detail about using
ICU to internationalize software are described in the project
FAQ. ICU is used to develop software independently of the countries or languages of intended users so it can be readily translated for multiple countries or regions.
Read the news
The ICU project was launched as open source code in August 1999, based on interest
from other companies in collaborating on the future development of ICU.
Get the source
A CVS repository contains the latest version of the ICU source code and documentation. All ICU core team members and ICU contributors have read-write access to CVS and WebCVS.
CVS is a system that lets groups of people work simultaneously on groups of files. CERN has a Web site with general information on CVS, as does cyclic.com.
Periodically, the ICU project team takes a snapshot of the code and makes a stable version available.
Get involved
Communicate with the team
The
ICU Developer Newsgroup is open to all ICU developers and ICU core team members for technical discussions about ICU.
Occasional contributors can report bugs and participate in the alphaWorks ICU newsgroup. Developers who've been participating for a while on alphaWorks may decide to become regular contributors to the open source.
For detail on team responsibilities, read how to become a contributor or core team member.
Report bugs
JitterBug
is the system for tracking ICU bugs and feature requests. The core team and
contributors have read-write access to this database. The community at
large has read access through a Web interface.
Jitterbug is a Web-based bug tracking system. It handles bug tracking, problem reports, and queries and is available under the GNU General Public License. JitterBug has a Web site for general information on JitterBug.
Stay up-to-date
The ICU project Web site is where the day-to-day activity takes place. The site is maintained by the ICU project team.
Members of the ICU core team have secure FTP access so that they can contribute to the content of the Web site as necessary.
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