Hello All, Announcement ============ I want to announce a preview of the third version of Boost.Locale: Tutorial: http://cppcms.sourceforge.net/boost_locale/html/tutorial.html Reference: http://cppcms.sourceforge.net/boost_locale/html/index.html Downloads: https://sourceforge.net/projects/cppcms/files/boost_locale/ There are following significant changes: - Implemented multiple localization backends: - icu - the default and recommended backend, based on ICU library - std - based on C++ standard library localizations support, - posix - based on POSIX 2008 API (newlocale, strftime_l,...) - winapi - based on Windows API functions - Significantly simplified locale generation. - Improvements in UTF-8 handling by ICU where possible - Thread safety fixes when using ICU library - Fixed std::codecvt facet support to handle UTF-16 instead of UCS-2 only. - Removed support of compilers missing wide character support, gcc-3.4 on windows is not supported any more, latest gcc-4.x required with support of wide streams and strings, for example gcc-4.5 Tested Platforms: - Compilers: GCC (3.4, 4.2, 4.3, 4.5, 4.5/c++0x), Intel 11.0, MSVC 2008, SunStudio/stlport - Operating Systems: Linux, FreeBSD, OpenSolaris, Windows XP, Cygwin 1.7, (TODO Mac OS X) - ICU version: 3.6 to 4.4 Request To Site managers ========================= Please, update download link Review ====== Is there anybody who wants to volunteer to be a review manager? Artyom