See the official International Components for Unicode site for an introduction to ICU.

This repository is a fork of the ICU project (specifically ICU4C) with changes. This fork is maintained by the Microsoft Global Foundations team.

The changes in this repository fall into the following broad categories:

• Maintenance related changes.
• Changes needed for consumption inside various Microsoft products.
• Additional locales from CLDR to improve parity with existing NLS locale support, and changes to address customer issues and feedback.

Before reporting any issues, or creating any pull-request(s), please ensure that your issue or change is related to one of the above reasons.

Any other issues, changes, bug fixes, improvements, enhancements, etc. should be made in the upstream project here:

• Upstream source: https://github.com/unicode-org/icu
• Upstream issues: https://unicode-org.atlassian.net/projects/ICU

👉 Note: Please make sure your change(s) cannot be made upstream first.

Most bug fixes, improvements, enhancements, etc. should be made in the upstream project here: https://github.com/unicode-org/icu

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