- ICU provides Unicode support for non-English languages with
- character sets outside the range of 7bit ASCII, like
- Greek, Russian, German and French. Pazpar2 uses the ICU
- Unicode character conversions, Unicode normalization, case
- folding and other fundamental operations needed in
- tokenization, normalization and ranking of records.
- </para>
- <para>
- Compiling, linking, and usage of the ICU libraries is optional,
- but strongly recommended for usage in an international
- environment.
+ It is highly recommended that YAZ is also compiled with
+ <ulink url="&url.icu;">ICU</ulink> support.