[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 209579] Escaped UTF-8 not parsed correctly with icu 52

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--- Comment #5 from Mike Gorse <mgorse at suse.com> ---
(In reply to Darin Adler from comment #4)
> Comment on attachment 394569 [details]
> Patch.
> 
> View in context:
> https://bugs.webkit.org/attachment.cgi?id=394569&action=review
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> >>> Source/JavaScriptCore/ChangeLog:3
> >>> +        Escaped UTF-8 not parsed correctly with icu 52
> >> 
> >> That's... from 2013. It doesn't seem meaningful to support such systems in WebKit trunk.
> > 
> > I agree, unless there are some extenuating circumstances that require that we support this going forward.
> 
> Who has a need to build the very latest WebKit, but with very old ICU?

We are still, for instance, supporting SLE 12, which is on GNOME 3.20 as of SP2. But, from what I gather, it is recommended to ship the newest WebKitGTK release, in order to provide security fixes, although this becomes increasingly difficult over time when we are shipping versions of several libraries that WebKit no longer supports. Anyway, which versions of libraries to support is a larger question than just icu, and this wouldn't be the only downstream patch that I'd need to carry...

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