On 2017-09-12 10:15, Magnus Johansson magnus@...
[firebird-support] wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> Perhaps my previous post about collation problem was too long so that
> nobody cared to read it through, so let me start with a simpler
> question.
>
> I need unicode collation for Swedish and therefore I have to replace
> the ICU libraries.
>
> First I have downloaded the snapshot for FB 3.0.3 for Windows
> (Firebird-3.0.3.32802-0_x64).
>
> Then I went to http://site.icu-project.org/download and downloaded
> icu4c-52_1-Win64-msvc10.zip from where I got the icu*52.dll's and
> extracted them to the FB3 folder, replacing the existing ones.
>
> No changes done in intl\fbintl.conf or anything else.
>
> I would appreciate if anyone could just answer if this is the correct
> way to do this.

I believe this is the correct approach, but I have only tried it once
with Firebird 2.5 and ran into some compatibility issues at that time.
Unfortunately this is - afaik - entirely undocumented.

Personally I'd prefer if Firebird was just released with the full ICU
library instead of the trimmed down version.

Mark