[REVIEW 3-5] Re: build breaks - icu49 ?

[Caolán McNamara]

On Mon, 2012-04-02 at 19:31 +0200, Eike Rathke wrote:
> Bah, I initially overlooked that the patch also changes the general
> char.txt, not only char_in.txt
> 
> We have a problem here, as that changes behavior for Thai and Lao with
> existing ICU versions.

Would be worth adding some sample text that's affected by it to
i18npool/qa/cppunit/test_breakiterator.cxx

> Ideally the change of char.txt should depend on the actual ICU version
> being used, e.g. by duplicating the data file and in makefile check the
> ICU version, ugly but I don't see other means. Anyone else?

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=42460 is the kind of hack
I tried out the last time something like this happened

C.