tools: support full-icu by default

Instead of an English-only icudt64l.dat in the repo,
we now have icudt64l.dat.gz with all locales.

- updated READMEs and docs
- shrinker now copies source, and compresses (bzip2) the ICU data file
- configure expects deps/icu-small to be full ICU with a full
compressed data file

Fixes: https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/19214
Co-Authored-By: Richard Lau <riclau@uk.ibm.com>
Co-Authored-By: Jan Olaf Krems <jan.krems@gmail.com>
Co-Authored-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/29522

Reviewed-By: Jan Krems <jan.krems@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Jiawen Geng <technicalcute@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Michael Dawson <michael_dawson@ca.ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Michaël Zasso <targos@protonmail.com>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/doc/api/intl.md b/doc/api/intl.md
index be30e4e2528..35124474067 100644
--- a/doc/api/intl.md
+++ b/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/