RFR: 8360774: Use text representation of normalization data files

[Magnus Ihse Bursie]

On Fri, 27 Jun 2025 20:45:14 GMT, Naoto Sato <naoto at openjdk.org> wrote:

> The ICU4J component currently stores binary data files directly in the repository. This change replaces them with base64-encoded text files and converts them to binary during the build process

I don't see any benefit of checking in base64-encoded files that are inherently binary. If anyone else have a different opinion, let's hear it.

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PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/26027#issuecomment-3017150314