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| // Copyright (c) 2009-2011 Artyom Beilis (Tonkikh) |
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| \mainpage Boost.Locale |
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| \section main_intro What is Boost.Locale? |
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| 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. |
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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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| Provided Features: |
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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 \c char and \c wchar_t |
| - Experimental support for C++0x \c char16_t and \c char32_t |
| strings and streams. |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| Boost.Locale creates the natural glue between the C++ locales |
| framework, iostreams, and the powerful ICU library. |
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| 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. |
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| \section main_tutorial Tutorials |
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| - \subpage std_locales |
| - \subpage using_boost_locale |
| - \ref locale_gen |
| - \ref collation |
| - \ref conversions |
| - \ref formatting_and_parsing |
| - \ref messages_formatting |
| - \ref charset_handling |
| - \ref boundary_analysys |
| - \ref localized_text_formatting |
| - \ref dates_times_timezones |
| - \ref locale_information |
| - \ref working_with_multiple_locales |
| - \subpage using_localization_backends |
| - \subpage recommendations_and_myths |
| - \subpage building_boost_locale |
| - \subpage appendix |
| - \ref rationale |
| - \ref faq |
| - \ref default_encoding_under_windows |
| - \ref running_examples_under_windows |
| - \ref gettext_for_windows |
| - \ref glossary |
| - \ref tested_compilers_and_paltforms |
| - \ref status_of_cpp0x_characters_support |
| - \ref special_thanks |
| - \subpage changelog |
| */ |
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