--- a/lib/util/charset/wscript_configure
+++ b/lib/util/charset/wscript_configure
@@ -37,15 +37,15 @@ conf.CHECK_CODE('''
                 lib='iconv',
                 headers='errno.h iconv.h')
 
-if conf.CHECK_CFG(package='icu-i18n',
-               args='--cflags --libs',
-               msg='Checking for icu-i18n',
-               uselib_store='ICU_I18N'):
-    for lib in conf.env['LIB_ICU_I18N']:
-        conf.CHECK_LIB(lib, shlib=True, mandatory=True)
-    conf.env['icu-libs'] = ' '.join(conf.env['LIB_ICU_I18N'])
-    if not conf.CHECK_HEADERS('unicode/ustring.h'):
-        conf.fatal('Found libicu, but unicode/ustring.h is missing')
-    conf.DEFINE('HAVE_UTF8_NORMALISATION', 1)
-else:
-    conf.env['icu-libs'] = ''
+# if conf.CHECK_CFG(package='icu-i18n',
+               # args='--cflags --libs',
+               # msg='Checking for icu-i18n',
+               # uselib_store='ICU_I18N'):
+    # for lib in conf.env['LIB_ICU_I18N']:
+        # conf.CHECK_LIB(lib, shlib=True, mandatory=True)
+    # conf.env['icu-libs'] = ' '.join(conf.env['LIB_ICU_I18N'])
+    # if not conf.CHECK_HEADERS('unicode/ustring.h'):
+        # conf.fatal('Found libicu, but unicode/ustring.h is missing')
+    # conf.DEFINE('HAVE_UTF8_NORMALISATION', 1)
+# else:
+conf.env['icu-libs'] = ''