alt Hacker NewsThe ICU library. It’s so ubiquitous that it’s somewhat difficult to avoid this library if you are doing anything advanced with human text.
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poizan42 • today at 5:07 AM
Windows has its own library built-in: NLS. There have been a lot of back-and-forth about whether to use NLS or ICU in dotnet on Windows because it resulted in different behavior between Windows and other platforms. I think they ended up using ICU by default from .NET 5 on.
And ICU uses data from CLDR, which is mentioned in the blog. Here, there are 380 xml files: https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/tree/main/common/transfo...
Yes, ICU is ubiquitous. But, some NLP projects use various other libraries, such as uroman (just for romanization - to Latin script).