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+International Components for Unicode
+------------------------------------
+
+**Project URL:** https://github.com/unicode-org/icu
+
+**License:** https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/blob/main/LICENSE
+
+**Source:** https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/tree/release-68-2
+
+**Release:** https://github.com/unicode-org/icu/releases/tag/release-68-2
+
+```
+icu4c-68_2-Win64-MSVC2019.zip
+icu4c-68_2-Win32-MSVC2019.zip
+```
+
+Only the needed DLLs are repackaged to save space.
+
+
+SHA256 Checksums
+----------------
+
+```
+fb652b4d18e452fae886f8fed404d6b430587e744a117ffaa32e05e73e839a97  icu-6.8.2-x86/icudt68.dll
+c7b8d528589f8e95e77ee42fe360b7d0be604bdb5ff2658d6ce15be2bec31d37  icu-6.8.2-x86/icuin68.dll
+720c5009b6cc4ea641fc5bc803db9b425807989e8312512fc65b563268f284df  icu-6.8.2-x86/icuuc68.dll
+cf4479a3f39d95c77058f39c5f49d104ec4f6d43e365aa13a2312066d2f5b024  icu-6.8.2-x86_64/icudt68.dll
+87956cf4f8f8eb9e1860628fc5ce31e762d85ad3cfddad0824f0d45aaa4d5d78  icu-6.8.2-x86_64/icuin68.dll
+c85a5848628cc5e17253e894bbea98868b76766714fe72673bd6ffefa0521f52  icu-6.8.2-x86_64/icuuc68.dll
+```
+
+
+Compilation
+-----------
+
+The DLLs export C++ symbols which means the build currently requires either MSVC
+or clang on Windows. Because of that it's not feasible to build it along with
+Proton. We are using pre-built versions redistributed by The Unicode Consortium
+instead.