--- icu-63.1-r1.ebuild	2019-01-23 14:09:25.000000000 +0000
+++ icu-63.1-r2.ebuild	2019-03-06 17:22:20.228044771 +0000
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
 SLOT="0/${PV}"
 
 KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ia64 ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 s390 ~sh sparc x86 ~ppc-aix ~amd64-fbsd ~x86-fbsd ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x86-macos ~sparc-solaris ~sparc64-solaris ~x64-solaris ~x86-solaris ~x86-winnt"
-IUSE="debug doc examples static-libs"
+IUSE="debug doc examples static-libs +unicode"
 
 DEPEND="
 	doc? ( app-doc/doxygen[dot] )
@@ -61,6 +61,10 @@
 src_configure() {
 	append-cxxflags -std=c++14
 
+	if ! use unicode; then
+		append-cxxflags -DU_CHARSET_IS_UTF8=0
+	fi
+
 	if tc-is-cross-compiler; then
 		mkdir "${WORKDIR}"/host || die
 		pushd "${WORKDIR}"/host >/dev/null || die