Chapter 16. Internationalization
As the global market has increased in importance, so too has internationalization, or i18n for short,1 for software development. As a consequence, the C++ standard library provides concepts to write code for international programs. These concepts influence mainly the use of I/O and string processing. This chapter describes these concepts. Many thanks to Dietmar Kühl, who is an expert on I/O and internationalization in the C++ standard library and wrote major parts of this chapter.
1 The common abbreviation for internationalization, i18n, stands for the letter i, followed by 18 characters, followed by the letter n.
The C++ standard library provides a general approach to support national conventions without being ...
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