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+# zig-icu
+
+![loc](https://sloc.xyz/github/nektro/zig-icu)
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+
+An implementation of [International Components for Unicode](https://icu.unicode.org/) in only [Zig](https://ziglang.org/).
+
+Zig module available through the [Zigmod](https://ziglang.org/) package manager.
+
+Goal of the static library is to be ABI-compatible. Any discrepancies are a bug.
+
+## License
+
+MIT