icu is the main meta-crate of the ICU4X project.
It provides a comprehensive selection of Unicode Internationalization Components in their canonical configurations intended to enable software internationalization capabilities.
This crate does not bring any unique functionality. Each module is also
available as a stand-alone crate, i.e. icu::list as icu_list.
Most functionality relies on data which clients have to provide to the APIs.
ICU4X uses the concept of a [DataProvider] to separate data from logic.
Data providers come in many different forms; the following providers are provided
by ICU4X in separate crates:
* [BlobDataProvider]: uses an in-memory serde-serialized blob. This is the most flexible provider, and
data can be updated at runtime.
* BakedDataProvider: a code-generated provider that contains the data directly in Rust code. This is
the most efficient provider as it's serialization-free, and allows for compile-time optimizations.
* [FsDataProvider]: uses a file system tree of Serde files. This is mostly useful for development and
not recommended in production for performance reasons.
* [icu_provider_adapters]: this crate contains APIs to combine providers or
provide additional functionality such as locale fallback.
The data that is required by these providers (in BakedDataProvider's case, the provider itself) can be
generated and customized using the [icu_datagen] crate.
The following example uses the [icu_testdata] crate, which contains prepackaged data providers
for a small set of locales.
```rust use icu::datetime::{mock::parsegregorianfrom_str, options::length, TypedDateTimeFormatter}; use icu::locid::locale;
let provider = icutestdata::getprovider();
let options = length::Bag::fromdatetime_style(length::Date::Long, length::Time::Medium).into();
let dtf = TypedDateTimeFormatter::trynewwithbufferprovider(&provider, &locale!("es").into(), options) .expect("Failed to create TypedDateTimeFormatter instance.");
let date = parsegregorianfrom_str("2020-09-12T12:35:00").expect("Failed to parse date.");
let formatteddate = dtf.format(&date); asserteq!( formatteddate.tostring(), "12 de septiembre de 2020, 12:35:00" ); ```
ICU4X components share a set of common features that control whether core pieces of functionality are compiled. These features are:
std: Whether to include std support. Without this feature, icu is #[no_std]-compatibleserde: Whether to include serde::Deserialize implementations for data structs, such as [SymbolsV1],
and serde::{Serialize, Deserialize} implementations for core libary types, such as [Locale]. These are
required with serde-backed providers like BlobDataProvider.experimental: Whether to enable experimental preview features. Modules enabled with
this feature may not be production-ready and could change at any time.The following features are only available on the individual crates, but not on this meta-crate:
- datagen: Whether to implement serde::Serialize and functionality that is only required during data generation.
- bench: Whether to enable exhaustive benchmarks. This can be enabled on individual crates
when running cargo bench.
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For more information on development, authorship, contributing etc. please visit ICU4X home page.