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<div class="textblock"><h1><a class="anchor" id="main_intro"></a>
What is Boost.Locale?</h1>
<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>
<p>Boost.Locale gives powerful tools for development of cross platform localized software - the software that talks to user in its language.</p>
<p>Provided Features:</p>
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<li>Correct case conversion, case folding and normalization.</li>
<li>Collation (sorting), including support for 4 Unicode collation levels.</li>
<li>Date, time, timezone and calendar manipulations, formatting and parsing, including transparent support for calendars other than Gregorian.</li>
<li>Boundary analysis for characters, words, sentences and line-breaks.</li>
<li>Number formatting, spelling and parsing.</li>
<li>Monetary formatting and parsing.</li>
<li>Powerful message formatting (string translation) including support for plural forms, using GNU catalogs.</li>
<li>Character set conversion.</li>
<li>Transparent support for 8-bit character sets like Latin1</li>
<li>Support for <code>char</code> and <code>wchar_t</code> </li>
<li>Experimental support for C++0x <code>char16_t</code> and <code>char32_t</code> strings and streams.</li>
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<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>
<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>
<p>Boost.Locale creates the natural glue between the C++ locales framework, iostreams, and the powerful ICU library.</p>
<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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Tutorials</h1>
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<li><a class="el" href="std_locales.html">Introduction to C++ Standard Library localization support</a></li>
<li><a class="el" href="using_boost_locale.html">Using Boost.Locale</a><ul>
<li><a class="el" href="locale_gen.html">Locale Generation</a></li>
<li><a class="el" href="collation.html">Collation</a></li>
<li><a class="el" href="conversions.html">Text Conversions</a></li>
<li><a class="el" href="formatting_and_parsing.html">Numbers, Time and Currency formatting and parsing</a></li>
<li><a class="el" href="messages_formatting.html">Messages Formatting (Translation)</a></li>
<li><a class="el" href="charset_handling.html">Character Set Conversions</a></li>
<li><a class="el" href="boundary_analysys.html">Boundary analysis</a></li>
<li><a class="el" href="localized_text_formatting.html">Localized Text Formatting</a></li>
<li><a class="el" href="dates_times_timezones.html">Working with dates, times, timezones and calendars.</a></li>
<li><a class="el" href="locale_information.html">Getting information about the current locale</a></li>
<li><a class="el" href="working_with_multiple_locales.html">Working with multiple locales</a></li>
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<li><a class="el" href="using_localization_backends.html">Using Localization Backends</a></li>
<li><a class="el" href="recommendations_and_myths.html">Recommendations and Myths</a></li>
<li><a class="el" href="building_boost_locale.html">Building The library</a></li>
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<li><a class="el" href="rationale.html">Design Rationale</a></li>
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<li><a class="el" href="default_encoding_under_windows.html">Default Encoding under Microsoft Windows</a></li>
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<li><a class="el" href="gettext_for_windows.html">Using Gettext Tools on Windows</a></li>
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