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| author | Mathieu Velten <mathieuv@matrix.org> | 2022-12-20 17:06:26 +0100 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2022-12-20 16:06:26 +0000 |
| commit | eb2defc2f7106bdc49c3c631c3be792a0a1a6578 (patch) | |
| tree | cb6e396efa72dff1c10db863a9c22d0ac0063449 /docs/development/contributing_guide.md | |
| parent | Tidy up CHANGES.md (diff) | |
| download | synapse-eb2defc2f7106bdc49c3c631c3be792a0a1a6578.tar.xz | |
Add release note and update doc regarding ICU (#14712)
Fixes #14704. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Velten <mathieuv@matrix.org>
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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/). |