Hello All, I had written a Boost.Locale library that provides high quality localization facilities in C++ way. This library uses internally ICU library to provide all facilities: - Correct case conversion, case folding and normalization - Collation including support of 4 Unicode collation levels. - Date and time formatting and parsing - Number formatting, spelling and parsing - Monetary formatting and parsing - Powerful message formatting including support plural forms, using GNU catalogs. - Character, word, sentence and line-break boundary analysis. - Codepage conversion - Support of 8-bit character sets like Latin1 and UTF–8 encoded text. - Support of char, wchar_t and C++0x char16_t, char32_t strings and streams. I've tested it with: - Linux GCC 4.1, 4.3. with ICU 3.6 and 3.8 - Windows MSVC-9 (VC 2008), with ICU 4.2 - Windows MingW with ICU 4.2 - Windows Cygwin with ICU 3.8 Documentation: ============== Full tutorials: http://cppcms.sourceforge.net/boost_locale/docs/ Doxygen reference documentation: http://cppcms.sourceforge.net/boost_locale/docs/doxy/html/ Source Code: ============ https://cppcms.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/cppcms/boost_locale/trunk Building: ========= At this point I hand't written any JAM files yet and I use CMake. So checkout the code, and run cmake /path/to/boost_locale/libs/locale You need to have ICU 3.6 or above installed on your system. 4.2 and above recommended It is mandatory dependency. Notes for MSVC Users ==================== In many examples I write: wstring tmp=L"שלום עולם!"; // Unicode string In order to make these examples work correctly source code should include BOM to let MSVC know that the text is UTF-8 and not ASCII... So when you try to compile examples convert files in order to make them work correctly. Todo List ========= - Create a good set of unit tests - More boostification (Jam, etc) I'm waiting for your inputs Artyom Beilis