Language Wrappers

The following are some language-specific wrappers that wrap all or part of the ICU's functionality. If you have questions about these projects, please use the normal support channels on their web site.

• Objective C
• CocoaICU A set of Objective-C classes that encapsulate parts of ICU.
• C#
• GenICUWrapper A tool that generates a rudimentary C# wrapper around the C API of ICU4C. This could be used to generate headers for other ICU wrappers.
• ICU Dotnet - .NET bindings for ICU
• D
• Mango.icu is a set of wrappers for the D programming language
• Erlang
• icu4e is a set of bindings for Erlang to ICU4C
  
• Cobol
• COBOL A page on how ICU could be used from a COBOL application.
• Haskell
• Data.Text.ICU Haskell bindings for ICU4C.
• Lua
• ICU-Lua ICU for the Lua language
• Pascal
• ICU4PAS An Object Pascal wrapper around ICU4C.
• PHP
• PHP intl A PHP wrapper around core ICU4C APIs.
• Python
• PyICU A Python extension wrapper around ICU4C.
• Ruby
• ICU4R A Ruby wrapper around ICU4C.
• Smalltalk
• VA Smalltalk Wrappers

Language Usage

The following are some languages or language environments that use ICU. The usage of ICU may be optional or required by the language depending on how each language has been configured.

• Parrot Virtual Machine This is a virtual machine for Perl 6 and other various programming languages. ICU4C is used to improve the Unicode support.
• PHP The upcoming PHP 6 language is expected to support Unicode through ICU4C.