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doc: clarify use of deps/icu-small
Add some additional info about use of icu subset in deps/icu-small Signed-off-by: Michael Dawson <[email protected]> PR-URL: #43287 Reviewed-By: Steven R Loomis <[email protected]>
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> widely portable and gives applications the same results on all platforms
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> and between C/C++ and Java software.
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If Node.js is configured to use its built-in ICU,
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it uses a strict subset of ICU which is in
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[deps/icu-small](https://github.com/nodejs/node/tree/HEAD/deps/icu-small).
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A good description of the different ways Node.js can be built with ICU
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support is in [api/intl.html](https://nodejs.org/api/intl.html).
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## Data dependencies
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ICU consumes and includes:
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#### Example: updating the ICU `.dat` file
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* Decompress `deps/icu/source/data/in/icudt##l.dat.bz2`, where `##` is
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* Decompress `deps/icu-small/source/data/in/icudt##l.dat.bz2`, where `##` is
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the ICU major version number.
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* Clone the icu/icu-data repository and copy the latest `tzdata` release `le`
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files into the `source/data/in` directory.

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