# Boost C++ Libraries

...one of the most highly regarded and expertly designed C++ library projects in the world. — Herb Sutter and Andrei Alexandrescu, C++ Coding Standards

# Using Boost.Locale

In this section we'll talk mostly about the ICU backend, as it is both the default and the most powerful localization backend provided by this library. In later sections we will note the features that are supported by other localization backends.

- Locale Generation
- Collation
- Text Conversions
- Numbers, Time and Currency formatting and parsing
- Messages Formatting (Translation)
- Character Set Conversions
- Boundary analysis
- Localized Text Formatting
- Working with dates, times, timezones and calendars.
- Getting information about the current locale
- Working with multiple locales