Make full-icu the default

BUILDING.md

@@ -35,21 +35,23 @@ file a new issue.
     * [Building Node.js](#building-nodejs-1)
   * [Android/Android-based devices (e.g. Firefox OS)](#androidandroid-based-devices-eg-firefox-os)
 * [`Intl` (ECMA-402) support](#intl-ecma-402-support)
-  * [Default: `small-icu` (English only) support](#default-small-icu-english-only-support)
   * [Build with full ICU support (all locales supported by ICU)](#build-with-full-icu-support-all-locales-supported-by-icu)
     * [Unix/macOS](#unixmacos)
     * [Windows](#windows-1)
-  * [Building without Intl support](#building-without-intl-support)
+  * [Trimmed: `small-icu` (English only) support](#trimmed-small-icu-english-only-support)
     * [Unix/macOS](#unixmacos-1)
     * [Windows](#windows-2)
-  * [Use existing installed ICU (Unix/macOS only)](#use-existing-installed-icu-unixmacOS-only)
-  * [Build with a specific ICU](#build-with-a-specific-icu)
+  * [Building without Intl support](#building-without-intl-support)
     * [Unix/macOS](#unixmacos-2)
     * [Windows](#windows-3)
+  * [Use existing installed ICU (Unix/macOS only)](#use-existing-installed-icu-unixmacOS-only)
+  * [Build with a specific ICU](#build-with-a-specific-icu)
+    * [Unix/macOS](#unixmacos-3)
+    * [Windows](#windows-4)
 * [Building Node.js with FIPS-compliant OpenSSL](#building-nodejs-with-fips-compliant-openssl)
 * [Building Node.js with external core modules](#building-nodejs-with-external-core-modules)
-  * [Unix/macOS](#unixmacos-3)
-  * [Windows](#windows-4)
+  * [Unix/macOS](#unixmacos-4)
+  * [Windows](#windows-5)
 * [Note for downstream distributors of Node.js](#note-for-downstream-distributors-of-nodejs)
 
 ## Supported platforms
@@ -598,31 +600,40 @@ $ make
 ## `Intl` (ECMA-402) support
 
 [Intl](https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/doc/api/intl.md) support is
-enabled by default, with English data only.
+enabled by default.
 
-### Default: `small-icu` (English only) support
+### Build with full ICU support (all locales supported by ICU)
 
-By default, only English data is included, but
-the full `Intl` (ECMA-402) APIs.  It does not need to download
-any dependencies to function. You can add full
-data at runtime.
+This is the default option.
 
-### Build with full ICU support (all locales supported by ICU)
+#### Unix/macOS
 
-With the `--download=all`, this may download ICU if you don't have an
-ICU in `deps/icu`. (The embedded `small-icu` included in the default
-Node.js source does not include all locales.)
+```console
+$ ./configure --with-intl=full-icu
+```
+
+#### Windows
+
+```console
+> .\vcbuild full-icu
+```
+
+### Trimmed: `small-icu` (English only) support
+
+ In this configuration, only English data is included, but
+the full `Intl` (ECMA-402) APIs.  It does not need to download
+any dependencies to function. You can add full data at runtime.
 
 #### Unix/macOS
 
 ```console
-$ ./configure --with-intl=full-icu --download=all
+$ ./configure --with-intl=small-icu
 ```
 
 #### Windows
 
 ```console
-> .\vcbuild full-icu download-all
+> .\vcbuild small-icu
 ```
 
 ### Building without Intl support

configure.py

@@ -11,6 +11,8 @@
 import shlex
 import subprocess
 import shutil
+import bz2
+
 from distutils.spawn import find_executable as which
 
 # If not run from node/, cd to node/.
@@ -409,7 +411,7 @@
 intl_optgroup.add_option('--with-intl',
     action='store',
     dest='with_intl',
-    default='small-icu',
+    default='full-icu',
     choices=valid_intl_modes,
     help='Intl mode (valid choices: {0}) [default: %default]'.format(
         ', '.join(valid_intl_modes)))
@@ -1399,38 +1401,35 @@ def write_config(data, name):
   icu_parent_path = 'deps'
 
   # The full path to the ICU source directory. Should not include './'.
-  icu_full_path = 'deps/icu'
+  icu_deps_path = 'deps/icu'
+  icu_full_path = icu_deps_path
 
   # icu-tmp is used to download and unpack the ICU tarball.
   icu_tmp_path = os.path.join(icu_parent_path, 'icu-tmp')
 
   # canned ICU. see tools/icu/README.md to update.
   canned_icu_dir = 'deps/icu-small'
 
+  # use the README to verify what the canned ICU is
+  canned_is_full = os.path.isfile(os.path.join(canned_icu_dir, 'README-FULL-ICU.txt'))
+  canned_is_small = os.path.isfile(os.path.join(canned_icu_dir, 'README-SMALL-ICU.txt'))
+  if canned_is_small:
+    warn('Ignoring %s - in-repo small icu is no longer supported.' % canned_icu_dir)
+
   # We can use 'deps/icu-small' - pre-canned ICU *iff*
-  # - with_intl == small-icu (the default!)
-  # - with_icu_locales == 'root,en' (the default!)
-  # - deps/icu-small exists!
+  # - canned_is_full AND
   # - with_icu_source is unset (i.e. no other ICU was specified)
-  # (Note that this is the *DEFAULT CASE*.)
   #
   # This is *roughly* equivalent to
-  # $ configure --with-intl=small-icu --with-icu-source=deps/icu-small
+  # $ configure --with-intl=full-icu --with-icu-source=deps/icu-small
   # .. Except that we avoid copying icu-small over to deps/icu.
   # In this default case, deps/icu is ignored, although make clean will
   # still harmlessly remove deps/icu.
 
-  # are we using default locales?
-  using_default_locales = ( options.with_icu_locales == icu_default_locales )
-
-  # make sure the canned ICU really exists
-  canned_icu_available = os.path.isdir(canned_icu_dir)
-
-  if (o['variables']['icu_small'] == b(True)) and using_default_locales and (not with_icu_source) and canned_icu_available:
+  if (not with_icu_source) and canned_is_full:
     # OK- we can use the canned ICU.
-    icu_config['variables']['icu_small_canned'] = 1
     icu_full_path = canned_icu_dir
-
+    icu_config['variables']['icu_full_canned'] = 1
   # --with-icu-source processing
   # now, check that they didn't pass --with-icu-source=deps/icu
   elif with_icu_source and os.path.abspath(icu_full_path) == os.path.abspath(with_icu_source):
@@ -1508,29 +1507,40 @@ def write_config(data, name):
   icu_endianness = sys.byteorder[0]
   o['variables']['icu_ver_major'] = icu_ver_major
   o['variables']['icu_endianness'] = icu_endianness
-  icu_data_file_l = 'icudt%s%s.dat' % (icu_ver_major, 'l')
+  icu_data_file_l = 'icudt%s%s.dat' % (icu_ver_major, 'l') # LE filename
   icu_data_file = 'icudt%s%s.dat' % (icu_ver_major, icu_endianness)
   # relative to configure
   icu_data_path = os.path.join(icu_full_path,
                                'source/data/in',
-                               icu_data_file_l)
+                               icu_data_file_l) # LE
+  compressed_data = '%s.bz2' % (icu_data_path)
+  if not os.path.isfile(icu_data_path) and os.path.isfile(compressed_data):
+    # unpack. deps/icu is a temporary path
+    if os.path.isdir(icu_tmp_path):
+      shutil.rmtree(icu_tmp_path)
+    os.mkdir(icu_tmp_path)
+    icu_data_path = os.path.join(icu_tmp_path, icu_data_file_l)
+    with open(icu_data_path, 'wb') as outf:
+        with bz2.BZ2File(compressed_data, 'rb') as inf:
+            shutil.copyfileobj(inf, outf)
+    # Now, proceed..
+
   # relative to dep..
-  icu_data_in = os.path.join('..','..', icu_full_path, 'source/data/in', icu_data_file_l)
+  icu_data_in = os.path.join('..','..', icu_data_path)
   if not os.path.isfile(icu_data_path) and icu_endianness != 'l':
     # use host endianness
     icu_data_path = os.path.join(icu_full_path,
                                  'source/data/in',
-                                 icu_data_file)
-    # relative to dep..
-    icu_data_in = os.path.join('..', icu_full_path, 'source/data/in',
-                               icu_data_file)
-  # this is the input '.dat' file to use .. icudt*.dat
-  # may be little-endian if from a icu-project.org tarball
-  o['variables']['icu_data_in'] = icu_data_in
+                                 icu_data_file) # will be generated
   if not os.path.isfile(icu_data_path):
     # .. and we're not about to build it from .gyp!
     error('''ICU prebuilt data file %s does not exist.
        See the README.md.''' % icu_data_path)
+
+  # this is the input '.dat' file to use .. icudt*.dat
+  # may be little-endian if from a icu-project.org tarball
+  o['variables']['icu_data_in'] = icu_data_in
+
   # map from variable name to subdirs
   icu_src = {
     'stubdata': 'stubdata',
@@ -1547,6 +1557,31 @@ def write_config(data, name):
     var  = 'icu_src_%s' % i
     path = '../../%s/source/%s' % (icu_full_path, icu_src[i])
     icu_config['variables'][var] = glob_to_var('tools/icu', path, 'patches/%s/source/%s' % (icu_ver_major, icu_src[i]) )
+  # calculate platform-specific genccode args
+  # print("platform %s, flavor %s" % (sys.platform, flavor))
+  # if sys.platform == 'darwin':
+  #   shlib_suffix = '%s.dylib'
+  # elif sys.platform.startswith('aix'):
+  #   shlib_suffix = '%s.a'
+  # else:
+  #   shlib_suffix = 'so.%s'
+  if flavor == 'win':
+    icu_config['variables']['icu_asm_ext'] = 'obj'
+    icu_config['variables']['icu_asm_opts'] = [ '-o ' ]
+  elif with_intl == 'small-icu' or options.cross_compiling:
+    icu_config['variables']['icu_asm_ext'] = 'c'
+    icu_config['variables']['icu_asm_opts'] = []
+  elif flavor == 'mac':
+    icu_config['variables']['icu_asm_ext'] = 'S'
+    icu_config['variables']['icu_asm_opts'] = [ '-a', 'gcc-darwin' ]
+  elif sys.platform.startswith('aix'):
+    icu_config['variables']['icu_asm_ext'] = 'S'
+    icu_config['variables']['icu_asm_opts'] = [ '-a', 'xlc' ]
+  else:
+    # assume GCC-compatible asm is OK
+    icu_config['variables']['icu_asm_ext'] = 'S'
+    icu_config['variables']['icu_asm_opts'] = [ '-a', 'gcc' ]
+
   # write updated icu_config.gypi with a bunch of paths
   write(icu_config_name, do_not_edit +
         pprint.pformat(icu_config, indent=2) + '\n')

deps/icu-small/README-FULL-ICU.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+ICU sources - auto generated by shrink-icu-src.py
+
+This directory contains the ICU subset used by --with-intl=full-icu
+It is a strict subset of ICU 64 source files with the following exception(s):
+* deps/icu-small/source/data/in/icudt64l.dat.bz2 : compressed data file
+
+
+To rebuild this directory, see ../../tools/icu/README.md
+

doc/api/intl.md

@@ -23,11 +23,9 @@ programs. Some of them are:
 * [`RegExp` Unicode Property Escapes][]
 
 Node.js (and its underlying V8 engine) uses [ICU][] to implement these features
-in native C/C++ code. However, some of them require a very large ICU data file
-in order to support all locales of the world. Because it is expected that most
-Node.js users will make use of only a small portion of ICU functionality, only
-a subset of the full ICU data set is provided by Node.js by default. Several
-options are provided for customizing and expanding the ICU data set either when
+in native C/C++ code. The full ICU data set is provided by Node.js by default.
+However, due to the size of the ICU data file, several
+options are provided for customizing the ICU data set either when
 building or running Node.js.
 
 ## Options for building Node.js
@@ -38,8 +36,8 @@ in [BUILDING.md][].
 
 * `--with-intl=none`/`--without-intl`
 * `--with-intl=system-icu`
-* `--with-intl=small-icu` (default)
-* `--with-intl=full-icu`
+* `--with-intl=small-icu`
+* `--with-intl=full-icu` (default)
 
 An overview of available Node.js and JavaScript features for each `configure`
 option:
@@ -66,8 +64,8 @@ operation is identical to that of `Date.prototype.toString()`.
 
 ### Disable all internationalization features (`none`)
 
-If this option is chosen, most internationalization features mentioned above
-will be **unavailable** in the resulting `node` binary.
+If this option is chosen, ICU is disabled and most internationalization
+features mentioned above will be **unavailable** in the resulting `node` binary.
 
 ### Build with a pre-installed ICU (`system-icu`)
 
@@ -106,9 +104,7 @@ console.log(spanish.format(january));
 // Should print "enero"
 ```
 
-This mode provides a good balance between features and binary size, and it is
-the default behavior if no `--with-intl` flag is passed. The official binaries
-are also built in this mode.
+This mode provides a balance between features and binary size.
 
 #### Providing ICU data at runtime
 
@@ -149,8 +145,9 @@ enable full `Intl` support.
 
 This option makes the resulting binary link against ICU statically and include
 a full set of ICU data. A binary created this way has no further external
-dependencies and supports all locales, but might be rather large. See
-[BUILDING.md][BUILDING.md#full-icu] on how to compile a binary using this mode.
+dependencies and supports all locales, but might be rather large. This is
+the default behavior if no `--with-intl` flag is passed. The official binaries
+are also built in this mode.
 
 ## Detecting internationalization support
 
@@ -205,7 +202,6 @@ to be helpful:
 [`String.prototype.toUpperCase()`]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/String/toUpperCase
 [`require('buffer').transcode()`]: buffer.html#buffer_buffer_transcode_source_fromenc_toenc
 [`require('util').TextDecoder`]: util.html#util_class_util_textdecoder
-[BUILDING.md#full-icu]: https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/BUILDING.md#build-with-full-icu-support-all-locales-supported-by-icu
 [BUILDING.md]: https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/BUILDING.md
 [ECMA-262]: https://tc39.github.io/ecma262/
 [ECMA-402]: https://tc39.github.io/ecma402/

doc/api/util.md

@@ -932,26 +932,9 @@ Per the [WHATWG Encoding Standard][], the encodings supported by the
 one or more aliases may be used.
 
 Different Node.js build configurations support different sets of encodings.
-While a very basic set of encodings is supported even on Node.js builds without
-ICU enabled, support for some encodings is provided only when Node.js is built
-with ICU and using the full ICU data (see [Internationalization][]).
+(see [Internationalization][])
 
-#### Encodings Supported Without ICU
-
-| Encoding     | Aliases                           |
-| -----------  | --------------------------------- |
-| `'utf-8'`    | `'unicode-1-1-utf-8'`, `'utf8'`   |
-| `'utf-16le'` | `'utf-16'`                        |
-
-#### Encodings Supported by Default (With ICU)
-
-| Encoding     | Aliases                           |
-| -----------  | --------------------------------- |
-| `'utf-8'`    | `'unicode-1-1-utf-8'`, `'utf8'`   |
-| `'utf-16le'` | `'utf-16'`                        |
-| `'utf-16be'` |                                   |
-
-#### Encodings Requiring Full ICU Data
+#### Encodings Supported by Default (With Full ICU Data)
 
 | Encoding           | Aliases                          |
 | -----------------  | -------------------------------- |
@@ -990,6 +973,21 @@ with ICU and using the full ICU data (see [Internationalization][]).
 | `'shift_jis'`      | `'csshiftjis'`, `'ms932'`, `'ms_kanji'`, `'shift-jis'`, `'sjis'`, `'windows-31j'`, `'x-sjis'` |
 | `'euc-kr'`         | `'cseuckr'`, `'csksc56011987'`, `'iso-ir-149'`, `'korean'`, `'ks_c_5601-1987'`, `'ks_c_5601-1989'`, `'ksc5601'`, `'ksc_5601'`, `'windows-949'` |
 
+#### Encodings Supported when Node.js is built with the `small-icu` option
+
+| Encoding     | Aliases                           |
+| -----------  | --------------------------------- |
+| `'utf-8'`    | `'unicode-1-1-utf-8'`, `'utf8'`   |
+| `'utf-16le'` | `'utf-16'`                        |
+| `'utf-16be'` |                                   |
+
+#### Encodings Supported when ICU is disabled
+
+| Encoding     | Aliases                           |
+| -----------  | --------------------------------- |
+| `'utf-8'`    | `'unicode-1-1-utf-8'`, `'utf8'`   |
+| `'utf-16le'` | `'utf-16'`                        |
+
 The `'iso-8859-16'` encoding listed in the [WHATWG Encoding Standard][]
 is not supported.
 
@@ -1005,9 +1003,9 @@ changes:
 * `encoding` {string} Identifies the `encoding` that this `TextDecoder` instance
   supports. **Default:** `'utf-8'`.
 * `options` {Object}
-  * `fatal` {boolean} `true` if decoding failures are fatal. This option is only
-    supported when ICU is enabled (see [Internationalization][]). **Default:**
-    `false`.
+  * `fatal` {boolean} `true` if decoding failures are fatal.
+    This option is not supported when ICU is disabled
+    (see [Internationalization][]). **Default:** `false`.
   * `ignoreBOM` {boolean} When `true`, the `TextDecoder` will include the byte
      order mark in the decoded result. When `false`, the byte order mark will
      be removed from the output. This option is only used when `encoding` is