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// Copyright (c) 2009-2011 Artyom Beilis (Tonkikh)
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//
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// Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See
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// accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
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// http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
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//
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// vim: tabstop=4 expandtab shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 filetype=cpp.doxygen
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/*!
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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
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localization facilities in a C++ way. It was originally designed
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a part of <a href="http://cppcms.sourceforge.net/">CppCMS</a> - C++ Web Framework
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project and then contributed to Boost.
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Boost.Locale gives powerful tools for development of cross platform
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localized software - the software that talks to user
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in its language.
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Provided Features:
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- Correct case conversion, case folding and normalization.
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- Collation (sorting), including support for 4 Unicode
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collation levels.
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- Date, time, timezone and calendar manipulations,
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formatting and parsing, including transparent support
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for calendars other than Gregorian.
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- Boundary analysis for characters, words, sentences and
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line-breaks.
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- Number formatting, spelling and parsing.
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- Monetary formatting and parsing.
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- Powerful message formatting (string translation)
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including support for plural forms, using GNU catalogs.
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- Character set conversion.
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- Transparent support for 8-bit character sets like Latin1
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- Support for \c char and \c wchar_t
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- Experimental support for C++0x \c char16_t and \c char32_t
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strings and streams.
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Boost.Locale enhances and unifies the standard library's API
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the way it becomes useful and convenient for development
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of cross platform and "cross-culture" software.
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In order to achieve this goal Boost.Locale uses
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the-state-of-the-art Unicode and Localization
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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
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framework, iostreams, and the powerful ICU library.
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Boost.Locale provides non-ICU based localization support as well.
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It is based on the operating system native API or on the standard
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C++ library support. Sacrificing some less important features,
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Boost.Locale becomes less powerful but lighter and easier to deploy
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and use library.
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\section main_tutorial Tutorials
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- \subpage std_locales
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- \subpage using_boost_locale
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- \ref locale_gen
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- \ref collation
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- \ref conversions
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- \ref formatting_and_parsing
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- \ref messages_formatting
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- \ref charset_handling
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- \ref boundary_analysys
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- \ref localized_text_formatting
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- \ref dates_times_timezones
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- \ref locale_information
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- \ref working_with_multiple_locales
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- \subpage using_localization_backends
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- \subpage recommendations_and_myths
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- \subpage building_boost_locale
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- \subpage appendix
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- \ref rationale
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- \ref faq
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- \ref default_encoding_under_windows
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- \ref running_examples_under_windows
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- \ref gettext_for_windows
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- \ref glossary
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- \ref tested_compilers_and_paltforms
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- \ref status_of_cpp0x_characters_support
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- \ref special_thanks
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- \subpage changelog
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*/
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