Nick Ing-Simmons wrote:
... what _is_ Picu - or rather what is ICU !
Perl wrappers for ICU (PICU) provides Perl access to ICU. ICU is an
internationalization (i18n) library from IBM which allows the same body
of code to work in many languages (locales). Consider formatting
monetary
units (assume 1 million monetary units and ignore the relative value):
American: $1,000,000.00
French: 1 000 000,00 F
German: 1.000.000,08 DM
Without an i18n library, applications tend to end up: 1) only supporting
English (actually American), 2) with a lot of conditional code, or 3)
with separate versions for each language.
ICU provides core the i18n for Java.
The features in ICU include (http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/):
Calendar support Message formatting
Character set conversions Normalization
Collation (language-sensitive) Number & currency formatting
Date & time formatting Time zones
Locales (140+ supported) Transliteration
Message catalogs (resources) Word, line & sentence breaks
The Picu mailing list address (corrected):
http://lists.sourceforge.net/mailman/listinfo/picu-developer
Brian Stell
