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It was originally designed a part of <a href="http://cppcms.sourceforge.net/">CppCMS</a> - C++ Web Framework project and then contributed to Boost.</p> 71<p>Boost.Locale gives powerful tools for development of cross platform localized software - the software that talks to user in its language.</p> 72<p>Provided Features:</p> 73<ul> 74<li>Correct case conversion, case folding and normalization.</li> 75<li>Collation (sorting), including support for 4 Unicode collation levels.</li> 76<li>Date, time, timezone and calendar manipulations, formatting and parsing, including transparent support for calendars other than Gregorian.</li> 77<li>Boundary analysis for characters, words, sentences and line-breaks.</li> 78<li>Number formatting, spelling and parsing.</li> 79<li>Monetary formatting and parsing.</li> 80<li>Powerful message formatting (string translation) including support for plural forms, using GNU catalogs.</li> 81<li>Character set conversion.</li> 82<li>Transparent support for 8-bit character sets like Latin1</li> 83<li>Support for <code>char</code> and <code>wchar_t</code> </li> 84<li>Experimental support for C++0x <code>char16_t</code> and <code>char32_t</code> strings and streams.</li> 85</ul> 86<p>Boost.Locale enhances and unifies the standard library's API the way it becomes useful and convenient for development of cross platform and "cross-culture" software.</p> 87<p>In order to achieve this goal Boost.Locale uses the-state-of-the-art Unicode and Localization library: <a href="http://icu-project.org/">ICU</a> - International Components for Unicode.</p> 88<p>Boost.Locale creates the natural glue between the C++ locales framework, iostreams, and the powerful ICU library.</p> 89<p>Boost.Locale provides non-ICU based localization support as well. It is based on the operating system native API or on the standard C++ library support. Sacrificing some less important features, Boost.Locale becomes less powerful but lighter and easier to deploy and use library.</p> 90<h1><a class="anchor" id="main_tutorial"></a> 91Tutorials</h1> 92<ul> 93<li><a class="el" href="std_locales.html">Introduction to C++ Standard Library localization support</a></li> 94<li><a class="el" href="using_boost_locale.html">Using Boost.Locale</a><ul> 95<li><a class="el" href="locale_gen.html">Locale Generation</a></li> 96<li><a class="el" href="collation.html">Collation</a></li> 97<li><a class="el" href="conversions.html">Text Conversions</a></li> 98<li><a class="el" href="formatting_and_parsing.html">Numbers, Time and Currency formatting and parsing</a></li> 99<li><a class="el" href="messages_formatting.html">Messages Formatting (Translation)</a></li> 100<li><a class="el" href="charset_handling.html">Character Set Conversions</a></li> 101<li><a class="el" href="boundary_analysys.html">Boundary analysis</a></li> 102<li><a class="el" href="localized_text_formatting.html">Localized Text Formatting</a></li> 103<li><a class="el" href="dates_times_timezones.html">Working with dates, times, timezones and calendars.</a></li> 104<li><a class="el" href="locale_information.html">Getting information about the current locale</a></li> 105<li><a class="el" href="working_with_multiple_locales.html">Working with multiple locales</a></li> 106</ul> 107</li> 108<li><a class="el" href="using_localization_backends.html">Using Localization Backends</a></li> 109<li><a class="el" href="recommendations_and_myths.html">Recommendations and Myths</a></li> 110<li><a class="el" href="building_boost_locale.html">Building The library</a></li> 111<li><a class="el" href="appendix.html">Appendix</a><ul> 112<li><a class="el" href="rationale.html">Design Rationale</a></li> 113<li><a class="el" href="faq.html">Frequently Asked Questions</a></li> 114<li><a class="el" href="default_encoding_under_windows.html">Default Encoding under Microsoft Windows</a></li> 115<li><a class="el" href="running_examples_under_windows.html">Running Examples under Microsoft Windows</a></li> 116<li><a class="el" href="gettext_for_windows.html">Using Gettext Tools on Windows</a></li> 117<li><a class="el" href="glossary.html">Glossary</a></li> 118<li><a class="el" href="tested_compilers_and_paltforms.html">Tested Compilers and Platforms</a></li> 119<li><a class="el" href="status_of_cpp0x_characters_support.html">Status of C++11 char16_t/char32_t support</a></li> 120<li><a class="el" href="special_thanks.html">Special Thanks</a></li> 121</ul> 122</li> 123<li><a class="el" href="changelog.html">Changelog</a> </li> 124</ul> 125</div></div><!-- contents --> 126</div><!-- doc-content --> 127 128 <li class="footer"> 129© Copyright 2009-2012 Artyom Beilis, Distributed under the <a href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt">Boost Software License</a>, Version 1.0. 130 </li> 131 </ul> 132 </div> 133</body> 134</html> 135
