diff --git a/packages/databases/sqlite/package.mk b/packages/databases/sqlite/package.mk
index 1e99c805ff..4d4dfd9221 100644
--- a/packages/databases/sqlite/package.mk
+++ b/packages/databases/sqlite/package.mk
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ PKG_LICENSE="PublicDomain"
 PKG_SITE="https://www.sqlite.org/"
 PKG_URL="https://www.sqlite.org/2021/${PKG_NAME}-autoconf-${PKG_VERSION_SQLITE/./0}.tar.gz"
 PKG_DEPENDS_HOST="ccache:host autoconf:host automake:host"
-PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain ncurses"
+PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain ncurses icu"
 PKG_LONGDESC="An Embeddable SQL Database Engine."
 # libsqlite3.a(sqlite3.o): requires dynamic R_X86_64_PC32 reloc against 'sqlite3_stricmp' which may overflow at runtime
 PKG_BUILD_FLAGS="+pic +pic:host -parallel"
@@ -53,4 +53,8 @@ pre_configure_target() {
 # sqlite3_config(SQLITE_CONFIG_MMAP_SIZE) call, or at run-time using the
 # mmap_size pragma.
   CFLAGS+=" -DSQLITE_TEMP_STORE=3 -DSQLITE_DEFAULT_MMAP_SIZE=268435456"
+
+# Enable ICU support.
+# This make case insensitive like statement for non ASCII characters.
+  CFLAGS+=" -DSQLITE_ENABLE_ICU -licuio -licui18n -licuuc -licudata"
 }
diff --git a/packages/addons/addon-depends/icu/package.mk b/packages/textproc/icu/package.mk
similarity index 97%
rename from packages/addons/addon-depends/icu/package.mk
rename to packages/textproc/icu/package.mk
index b3818c4eaf..63156dda15 100644
--- a/packages/addons/addon-depends/icu/package.mk
+++ b/packages/textproc/icu/package.mk
@@ -12,8 +12,6 @@ PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain icu:host"
 PKG_LONGDESC="International Components for Unicode library."
 PKG_TOOLCHAIN="configure"
 
-PKG_BUILD_FLAGS="-sysroot"
-
 configure_package() {
   PKG_CONFIGURE_SCRIPT="${PKG_BUILD}/icu4c/source/configure"
   PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_TARGET="--disable-layout \
diff --git a/packages/addons/addon-depends/icu/patches/icu-01_ldflags.patch b/packages/textproc/icu/patches/icu-01_ldflags.patch
similarity index 100%
rename from packages/addons/addon-depends/icu/patches/icu-01_ldflags.patch
rename to packages/textproc/icu/patches/icu-01_ldflags.patch