| PackageDescription | C++ facilities for localization
This package forms part of the Boost C++ Libraries collection.
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Boost.Locale gives powerful tools for development of cross platform
localized software - the software that talks to user in its language.
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* Correct case conversion, case folding and normalization.
* Collation (sorting), including support for 4 Unicode collation
levels.
* Date, time, timezone and calendar manipulations, formatting
and parsing, including transparent support for calendars other than
Gregorian.
* Boundary analysis for characters, words, sentences and
line-breaks.
* Number formatting, spelling and parsing.
* Monetary formatting and parsing.
* Powerful message formatting (string translation) including
support for plural forms, using GNU catalogs.
* Character set conversion.
* Transparent support for 8-bit character sets like Latin1
* Support for char and wchar_t
* Experimental support for C++0x char16_t and char32_t strings and streams. |