Inconsistent PyICU behavior

[wkyoshida]

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Behavior

PyICU appears to show inconsistent behavior - not confirmed, though likely due to differences from installation needs when in differing OS/environments.

Initially observed here

This bug issue is to continue investigation on the PyICU behavior, what causes the inconsistency, if any resolution, and if needed, what alternatives to PyICU could be used for ICU/CLDR data.

[andrewtavis]

Thank you, @wkyoshida! 🙏

[andrewtavis]

Would it make sense to maybe create a script that does the PyICU install for folks?

[Jk40git]

Experiencing this inconsistent behavior also when investigated I was able to install it on my windows with this
command python -m pip install .\PyICU-2.12-cp312-cp312-win_amd64.whl. The file could be downloaded here PyICU and place in a folder where you locate your command prompt

[andrewtavis]

Hey @wkyoshida 👋 Do you think we can get the pyicu installation commands to be ran as a part of the installation build for Scribe-Data? For dockerized deployment almost certainly as we'll have more control, but also have it be something that's triggered on a pip install before the requirements file is installed? We could maybe have including PyICU be something that's an installation flag so we're not running random commands without people explicitly saying so?

[andrewtavis]

Note that #196 should make a lot of progress on this. Once that issue is done, we should check back on this and try to do whatever is needed to finalize it :)

[andrewtavis]

I'm going to close this as it's been removed as a dependency. The user has to install it themselves via their docs to use the emoji functionality :) See #196.