From: Mathias Gaunard
That's a very interesting wrapper of ICU. It might even kill off my Unicode library.
I don't think so, I've been watching after this library and it was very interested in it. Note, there is quite a big difference: Boost.Locale provides **localization** centric API. I do not bother too much with character properties, I even do not provide UTF-8/16/32 code-point iterator because you are rarely need to go down to such low level. You rather need higher level abstraction: characters, words etc. Most of algorithms provided in Boost.Locale are actually locale dependent with very few exceptions:Unicode normalization, case folding and character set conversion just because they extremely important. More then that I fully support non-Unicode character sets (however I do not recommend them). So I do think that Unicode library that deals with lower level is important and they would rather complete each other then replace it. Artyom