[webkit-dev] Heads up: ICU source compatibility breakage in 59.1 release

[Konstantin Tokarev]

Hello,

ICU 59.1 release came out recently, featuring major source compatibility break. Notably, they've changed type of UChar to be char16_t, which does not allow automatic type conversion from unsigned short in C++ code.

Possible compilation fix is patch [1], however it changes definitions of JSChar and WKChar in public headers. Another problem is keeping compatibility with older ICU releases, that requires ICU version check in public headers.

Any thoughts how should it be resolved?

[1] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/icu59.patch?h=packages/webkit2gtk

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Regards,
Konstantin