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  58 <h2><a class="anchor" id="main_intro"></a>
  59 What is Boost.Locale?</h2>
  60 <p>Boost.Locale is a library that provides high quality localization facilities in a C++ way. 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>
  61 <p>Boost.Locale gives powerful tools for development of cross platform localized software - the software that talks to user in its language.</p>
  62 <p>Provided Features:</p>
  63 <ul>
  64 <li>Correct case conversion, case folding and normalization.</li>
  65 <li>Collation (sorting), including support for 4 Unicode collation levels.</li>
  66 <li>Date, time, timezone and calendar manipulations, formatting and parsing, including transparent support for calendars other than Gregorian.</li>
  67 <li>Boundary analysis for characters, words, sentences and line-breaks.</li>
  68 <li>Number formatting, spelling and parsing.</li>
  69 <li>Monetary formatting and parsing.</li>
  70 <li>Powerful message formatting (string translation) including support for plural forms, using GNU catalogs.</li>
  71 <li>Character set conversion.</li>
  72 <li>Transparent support for 8-bit character sets like Latin1</li>
  73 <li>Support for <code>char</code> and <code>wchar_t</code> </li>
  74 <li>Experimental support for C++0x <code>char16_t</code> and <code>char32_t</code> strings and streams.</li>
  75 </ul>
  76 <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>
  77 <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>
  78 <p>Boost.Locale creates the natural glue between the C++ locales framework, iostreams, and the powerful ICU library.</p>
  79 <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>
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  81 Tutorials</h2>
  82 <ul>
  83 <li><a class="el" href="std_locales.html">Introduction to C++ Standard Library localization support</a></li>
  84 <li><a class="el" href="using_boost_locale.html">Using Boost.Locale</a><ul>
  85 <li><a class="el" href="locale_gen.html">Locale Generation</a></li>
  86 <li><a class="el" href="collation.html">Collation</a></li>
  87 <li><a class="el" href="conversions.html">Text Conversions</a></li>
  88 <li><a class="el" href="formatting_and_parsing.html">Numbers, Time and Currency formatting and parsing</a></li>
  89 <li><a class="el" href="messages_formatting.html">Messages Formatting (Translation)</a></li>
  90 <li><a class="el" href="charset_handling.html">Character Set Conversions</a></li>
  91 <li><a class="el" href="boundary_analysys.html">Boundary analysis</a></li>
  92 <li><a class="el" href="localized_text_formatting.html">Localized Text Formatting</a></li>
  93 <li><a class="el" href="dates_times_timezones.html">Working with dates, times, timezones and calendars.</a></li>
  94 <li><a class="el" href="locale_information.html">Getting information about the current locale</a></li>
  95 <li><a class="el" href="working_with_multiple_locales.html">Working with multiple locales</a></li>
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