icu4c@79

Install command:
brew install icu4c@79

Also known as: icu4c

C/C++ and Java libraries for Unicode and globalization

https://icu.unicode.org/home

License: Unicode-3.0

Development: Pull requests

Formula JSON API: /api/formula/icu4c@79.json

Formula code: icu4c@79.rb on GitHub

Bottle (binary package) installation support provided for:

macOS on
Apple Silicon
golden gate ✅
tahoe ✅
sequoia ✅
Linux ARM64 ✅
x86_64 ✅

Current versions:

stable ✅ 79.1

Other versions:

icu4c@78 78.3 C/C++ and Java libraries for Unicode and globalization
icu4c@77 77.1 C/C++ and Java libraries for Unicode and globalization
icu4c@76 76.1 C/C++ and Java libraries for Unicode and globalization

Keg-only because macOS provides libicucore.dylib (but nothing else).

Binaries: derb, escapesrc, genbrk, genccode, gencfu, gencmn, gencnval, gendict, gennorm2, genrb, gensprep, icu-config, icuexportdata, icuinfo, icupkg, makeconv, pkgdata, uconv

GitHub Packages downloads:

Last 30 days2,043,536
Downloads2,043,536
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Analytics:

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Installs (--HEAD)333
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