diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Locale/Tests/Stub/StubNumberFormatterTest.php b/src/Symfony/Component/Locale/Tests/Stub/StubNumberFormatterTest.php
index 9471f820d1..7f033a31a9 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/Locale/Tests/Stub/StubNumberFormatterTest.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Locale/Tests/Stub/StubNumberFormatterTest.php
@@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ class StubNumberFormatterTest extends LocaleTestCase
 
     public function formatCurrencyWithCurrencyStyleBrazilianRealRoundingProvider()
     {
-        $brl = $this->isIntlExtensionLoaded() && $this->isSameAsIcuVersion('4.8') ? 'BR' : 'R';
+        $brl = $this->isIntlExtensionLoaded() && $this->isGreaterOrEqualThanIcuVersion('4.8') ? 'BR' : 'R';
 
         return array(
             array(100, 'BRL', $brl, '%s$100.00'),
diff --git a/src/Symfony/Component/Locale/Tests/TestCase.php b/src/Symfony/Component/Locale/Tests/TestCase.php
index b6483285a2..1cc2e9fcfb 100644
--- a/src/Symfony/Component/Locale/Tests/TestCase.php
+++ b/src/Symfony/Component/Locale/Tests/TestCase.php
@@ -89,7 +89,16 @@ abstract class TestCase extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
 
     protected function normalizeIcuVersion($version)
     {
-        return ((float) $version) * 100;
+        $versionIds = explode(".", $version);
+
+        $multi = 1000;
+        $intVersion = 0;
+        foreach ($versionIds as $id) {
+          $intVersion += $id * $multi;
+          $multi = $multi/10;
+        }
+
+        return (int) $intVersion;
     }
 
     protected function getIntlExtensionIcuVersion()