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I’ve created a <https://github.com/square/okhttp-icu|new GitHub repo called okhttp-icu> that’s intended to be a child of the existing okhttp repo. It takes a very tiny subset of the <https://icu.unicode.org/|ICU project> (currently <https://unicode-org.github.io/icu/userguide/transforms/normalization/|one function>) and packages it as a Kotlin-Multiplatform library.

This new project is small but also incomplete. There’s no tests! And it isn’t actually doing meaningful expect/actual things yet to be a proper multiplatform library. I plan to hook into the built-in ICU features on all the Kotlin platforms that have 'em. Currently I only expect Kotlin/Native on Linux to use the packaged ICU; everything else should be able to get something from the host platform.

It’d be nice to eventually get somebody (JetBrains? ICU?) to take this over and build a proper ICU library for Kotlin/Multiplatform. In the interim this works to unblock OkHttp’s very minimal needs.

I suspect this is how the tzdata maintainer started out. "it's basically one function, how hard can timezones/unicode be?" :)

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY> :smile: