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+# Template build file for 'icu'.
+pkgname=icu
+version=4.0
+wrksrc="icu/source"
+distfiles="http://download.icu-project.org/files/icu4c/4.0/icu4c-4_0-src@.tgz"
+build_style=gnu_configure
+make_cmd="$XBPS_MASTERDIR/bin/gmake"
+short_desc="Robust and full-featured Unicode services"
+maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
+checksum=c80dc50b9177b60a0191ea095c4c1c3360d2c6f4
+long_desc="
+ The International Components for Unicode(ICU) is a C and C++ library that
+ provides robust and full-featured Unicode support on a wide variety of
+ platforms. The library provides:
+
+ - Calendar support
+ - Character set conversions
+ - Collation (language-sensitive)
+ - Date & time formatting
+ - Locales (140+ supported)
+ - Message catalogs (resources)
+ - Message formatting
+ - Normalization
+ - Number & currency formatting
+ - Time zones
+ - Transliteration
+ - Word, line & sentence breaks"