From: Chad Nelson <chad.thecomfychair@gmail.com>
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- What is your evaluation of the documentation?
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* Confusing first page as it seems to only talk about other libraries, not the one in question. (?)
After reading the introduction page once again I had realized it may be a little bit misleadings. So there is the rewritten text I think should appear in general description of Boost.Locale library: ---------------------------------------------------- Boost.Locale is a library that provides high quality localization facilities in a C++ way. It gives powerful tools for development of cross platform localized software - the software that talks to user in its language. Provided Features: * 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. 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. In order to achieve this goal Boost.Locale uses the-state-of-the-art Unicode and Localization library: ICU - International Components for Unicode. Boost.Locale creates the natural glue between the C++ locales framework, iostreams, and the powerful ICU library. 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. ----------------------------------------------------------- Artyom Beilis