Product Overview
The Internationalization Module is built on the Unicode® Consortium International Components for Unicode (ICU). ICU is an open source library written in C and C++ and is the industry standard for Unicode processing.
Unicode is a universal character encoding scheme for written characters and text. It is the industry standard for writing internationalized applications that support multilingual text. Using Unicode in your applications, you can encode virtually all the characters used for all of the written languages of the world.
The Internationalization Module has the following features:
an intuitive, Rogue Wave style APIseamless interoperability with other Rogue Wave C++ productssupport for Unicode string processing, using the UTF-16 encoding form for the internal representation and manipulation of texteasy conversion between UTF-16 and hundreds of other character encodingssupport for Unicode regular expression pattern matchingsupport for locale-sensitive Unicode string searchessupport for locale-sensitive collation of Unicode stringssupport for locale-sensitive boundary analysis of Unicode stringssupport for tokenizing Unicode stringssupport for storing and accessing locale-dependent datasupport for Unicode string normalizationa convenient, C++ style, exception-based mechanism for responding to error conditions
