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| author | Sean Quah <seanq@matrix.org> | 2022-12-20 18:09:30 +0000 |
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| committer | Sean Quah <seanq@matrix.org> | 2022-12-20 18:09:30 +0000 |
| commit | 43c54ba75337e4a58b94de1bf7d8fbc3d7753ae6 (patch) | |
| tree | b6c3c0bcc376506b424d1d2c64cefc2975dbf31d /docs/development/contributing_guide.md | |
| parent | Bump lxml from 4.9.1 to 4.9.2 (#14698) (diff) | |
| parent | 1.74.0 (diff) | |
| download | synapse-43c54ba75337e4a58b94de1bf7d8fbc3d7753ae6.tar.xz | |
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diff --git a/docs/development/contributing_guide.md b/docs/development/contributing_guide.md index 342bc1d340..d07790f184 100644 --- a/docs/development/contributing_guide.md +++ b/docs/development/contributing_guide.md @@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ The code of Synapse is written in Python 3. To do pretty much anything, you'll n Synapse can connect to PostgreSQL via the [psycopg2](https://pypi.org/project/psycopg2/) Python library. Building this library from source requires access to PostgreSQL's C header files. On Debian or Ubuntu Linux, these can be installed with `sudo apt install libpq-dev`. +Synapse has an optional, improved user search with better Unicode support. For that you need the development package of `libicu`. On Debian or Ubuntu Linux, this can be installed with `sudo apt install libicu-dev`. + The source code of Synapse is hosted on GitHub. You will also need [a recent version of git](https://github.com/git-guides/install-git). For some tests, you will need [a recent version of Docker](https://docs.docker.com/get-docker/). |