from what I see this is only used for encoding/decoding and the README says "Mainly useful as an alternative to iconv on Windows. Unnecessary on most other systems." Since this is the only user of icu in base this also helps the installer size.
from what I see this is only used for encoding/decoding and the README says "Mainly useful as an alternative to iconv on Windows. Unnecessary on most other systems." Since this is the only user of icu in base this also helps the installer size.