As I\'m doing a project for non-english (Sinhala) language I need to sort the words in unicode.
So I followed answer in this question and installed PyICU in a conda envi
Installing pyicu from the conda-forge channel can be achieved by adding conda-forge to your channels with:
conda config --add channels conda-forge
Once the conda-forge channel has been enabled, pyicu can be installed with:
conda install pyicu
this solves the problem and it will install pyicu with dependencies
You need to install libicu. On centos, just run
yum install libicu