ICU meaning in Computing ?

Answer:

What is International Components for Unicode mean?

International Components for Unicode (ICU) is an open-source project of mature C/C++ and Java libraries for Unicode support, software internationalization, and software globalization. ICU is widely portable to many operating systems and environments. It gives applications the same results on all platforms and between C, C++, and Java software. The ICU project is a technical committee of the Unicode Consortium and sponsored, supported, and used by IBM and many other companies.

ICU provides the following services: Unicode text handling, full character properties, and character set conversions; Unicode regular expressions; full Unicode sets; character, word, and line boundaries; language-sensitive collation and searching; normalization, upper and lowercase conversion, and script transliterations; comprehensive locale data and resource bundle architecture via the Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR); multi-calendar and time zones; and rule-based formatting and parsing of dates, times, numbers, currencies, and messages. ICU provided complex text layout service for Arabic, Hebrew, Indic, and Thai historically, but that was deprecated in version 54, and was completely removed in version 58 in favor of HarfBuzz.

ICU provides more extensive internationalization facilities than the standard libraries for C and C++. ICU 67 supports Unicode 13.0 and handles removal of Great Britain from EU regions. ICU 64 supports Unicode 12.0, while ICU 64.2 added support for Unicode 12.1, i.e. the single new symbol for current Japanese Reiwa era (but support for it has also been backported to older ICU versions down to ICU 4.8.2). ICU 58 (with Unicode 9.0 support) is the last version to support older platforms such as Windows XP, Windows Vista. Support for AIX, Solaris and z/OS may also be limited in later versions (i.e. building depends on compiler supporting). ICU has been included as a standard component with Microsoft Windows since Windows 10 version 1703.

ICU has historically used UTF-16, and still does only for Java; while for C/C++ UTF-8 is supported, including the correct handling of "illegal UTF-8".

ICU 68 cannot be built with a C++20 compiler but should be possible with 69.1.

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Information and Communications University	Academic & Science
International Corean University	Academic & Science
International Catholic University	Academic & Science
International Christian University	Academic & Science
Information and Communications University, South Korea	Academic & Science
Inner City Unit	Arts
Islamic Courts Union	Associations & Organizations
Investment Capital Ukraine	Business
International Chalu Union	Community
Inner City Underground	Community
Inland Club Ultimate	Community
International Conference on Ultra-Wideband	Community
International Cheer Union	Community
Industrial Credit Union	Community
Isa Configuration Utility	Computer Assembly Language
International Classes for Unicode	Computer Assembly Language
Input Capture Unit	Computer Hardware
Inter Cache Unit	Computing
Interactive Configuration Utility	Computing
Instruction Control Unit	Computing
Ibm Classes for Unicode	Computing
Internet Communication Utility	Computing
International Components for Unicode	Computing
Instruction Cache Unit	Computing
Implementation Coordination Unit	Computing
Invalid Cmu User Id	Computing
Interrupt Control Unit	Computing
Instrument Control Unit	Computing
International Component for Unicode	Computing
Internet Connects Us	Computing
Internet Connection Users	Computing
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Imperial College Union	Educational Institute
International Congress on Ultrasonics	General
Intensive Care Units	General
Image Control Unit	General
Insane Clown Unit	General
Internal Camera Unit	General
Injector Control Unit	General
Immobilizer Control Unit	General
Inverter Charger Unit	General
Intersection Control Unit	General
Incredible Cats Unit	General
Incredibly Creative And Unique	General
In Christ United	General
Iowa City Unstubbables	General
Integrated Control Unit	General
Informed Committed Understanding	General
In Creative Unity	General
Irish Chess Union	General
Identifying Connecting and Understanding	General
Integrated Charging Unit	General
Internal Camera Units	General
Intersection Capacity Utilization	Governmental
International Credit Union	International
Izquierda Castreñsa Unida	International
I Can Understand	Internet
Intensive Care Unit	Medical
Immune Contact Urticaria	Medical
Infant Care Unit	Medical
Intermediate Care Unit	Medical
Intense Care Unit	Medical
I See You	Messaging
Interface Control Unit	Space Science
Ignition Control Unit	Space Science
International Cycling Union	Sports