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<p>Today's software market is a global one in which it is desirable to
develop and maintain one application (single source/single binary) that
supports a wide variety of languages. The International Components for
Unicode (C/C++) provides tools to help write platform-independent
applications that are internationalized and localized, with support
for:</p>
Unicode (ICU) libraries provide robust and full-featured Unicode services
on a wide variety of platforms to help this design goal. The ICU libraries
provide support for:</p>
<ul>
<li>Support for the latest version of the Unicode standard</li>
<li>The latest version of the Unicode standard</li>
<li>Character set conversions, with support for over 200 codepages</li>
<li>Character set conversions with support for over 200 codepages</li>
<li>Locale data for more than 220 locales</li>
<li>Locale data for more than 230 locales</li>
<li>Text collation (sorting) based on the Unicode Collation Algorithm
(=ISO 14651), customizable and tailored for national standards</li>
<li>Language sensitive text collation (sorting) and searching based on
the Unicode Collation Algorithm (=ISO 14651)</li>
<li>Transliteration services for script&lt;-&gt;script transliterations
and general text operations</li>
<li>Regular expression matching and Unicode sets</li>
<li>Transformations for normalization, upper/lowercase, script
transliterations (50+ pairs)</li>
<li>Resource bundles for storing and accessing localized information</li>
<li>Date/Number/Message formatting and parsing of culture-specific
<li>Date/Number/Message formatting and parsing of culture specific
input/output formats</li>
<li>Calendar specific date and time manipulation</li>
<li>Complex text layout for Arabic, Hebrew, Indic and Thai</li>
<li>Text boundary analysis for finding characters, word and sentence
boundaries</li>
</ul>