During the build of the ICU (International Components for Unicode) library, the
preprocessor constant U_CHARSET_IS_UTF8 is set to 1 on Linux systems. This has
the effect, that the users locale setting is ignored for all applications that
are using this library, e.g. KDE and QT. It's not possible any more to work
correctly with a different file system character set than UTF-8. Although UTF-8
is the recommended encoding, there are still reasons to use simple 8 bit
encodings like ISO8859-x. And almost all parts of OpenSuse are still supporting
such encodings, but this doesn't help because the ICU library returns hardcoded
"UTF-8".

During the package build, the preprocessor constant U_CHARSET_IS_UTF8 should be
set to 0 explicitly. Then the users LANG or LC_CTYPE setting is used for
character set conversions.

Affected file in package icu-61.1-1.1: source/common/unicode/platform.h