C++ facilities for localization (default version)

This package forms part of the Boost C++ Libraries collection.

Boost.Locale gives powerful tools for development of cross platform localized software - the software that talks to user in its language.

 * 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.

This package is a dependency package, which depends on Debian's default Boost version (currently 1.83).

Tags: Software Development: Libraries, Role: Development Library

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