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.