From f13a67956a8bc77726fc5e158161ca4570c5503e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jeff Genovy <29107334+jefgen@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2021 18:58:35 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] ICU-21777 Move Windows "ICU4C Platform Support" notes to "Building ICU4C" User Guide page. --- docs/userguide/icu4c/build.md | 12 +++++++++--- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/userguide/icu4c/build.md b/docs/userguide/icu4c/build.md index 41621b2511e..8e4c76b856a 100644 --- a/docs/userguide/icu4c/build.md +++ b/docs/userguide/icu4c/build.md @@ -136,9 +136,15 @@ In order to change such user-configurable settings, you can either modify the `u Building International Components for Unicode requires: -* Microsoft Windows -* Microsoft Visual C++ (part of [Visual Studio](https://www.visualstudio.com/)) (from either Visual Studio 2015 or Visual Studio 2017) -* _**Optional:**_ A version of the [Windows 10 SDK](https://developer.microsoft.com/windows/downloads) (if you want to build the UWP projects) +* Microsoft Windows 7 or newer. (Windows XP and Windows Vista are not supported) +* Microsoft Visual C++ (part of [Visual Studio](https://www.visualstudio.com/)) (from either Visual Studio 2017 or Visual Studio 2019) +* _**Optional:**_ A version of the [Windows 10 SDK](https://developer.microsoft.com/windows/downloads) is needed if you want to build the UWP projects. + +Notes regarding Windows specific issues: +- When using "`@compat=host`" on versions of Windows below Windows 10 version 1703, there are 6 locales with date and number formatting issues ([#13119](https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/ICU-13119)). + +- The LCID conversion APIs don't round-trip Kurdish (ku) and Central Kurdish (ckb) due to Windows not having a ckb locale ([#20181](https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/browse/ICU-20181)). + > :point_right: **Note**: [Cygwin](#how-to-build-and-install-on-windows-with-cygwin) is required if using a version of MSVC other than the one compatible with the supplied project files or if other compilers are used to build ICU. (e.g. GCC) -- 2.40.0