Locale Kit

Collection of classes for localizing applications. More...

Classes
class	BCatalog
	String localization handling. More...
class	BCollator
	Class for handling locale-aware collation (sorting) of strings. More...
class	BCountry
	Class representing a country. More...
class	BDurationFormat
	Formatter for time intervals. More...
class	BLocale
	Class for representing a locale and its settings. More...
class	BLocaleRoster
	Main class for accessing the Locale Kit data. More...
class	BTimeZone
	Provides information about time zones. More...
class	BUnicodeChar
	Management of all information about characters. More...
Files
file	Catalog.h
	Provides the BCatalog class.
file	Collator.h
	Provides the BCollator class.
file	Country.h
	BCountry class definition.
file	DurationFormat.h
	Contains BDurationFormat class, a time interval formatter.
file	Locale.h
	Provides the BLocale class, the base class of the Locale Kit.
file	LocaleRoster.h
	Provides the BLocaleRoster class to access locale data.
file	TimeZone.h
	Provides the BTimeZone class.
file	UnicodeChar.h
	Provides the BUnicodeChar class.

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Detailed Description

Collection of classes for localizing applications.

The Locale Kit provides a set of tools for internationalizing, localizing and translating your software. This includes not only replacing string with their translations at runtime, but also more complex tasks such as formatting numbers, dates, and times in a way that match the locale preferences of the user.

The main way to access locale data is through the be_locale_roster. This is a global instance of the BLocaleRoster class, storing the data for localizing an application according to the user's preferred settings. The locale roster also acts as a factory to instantiate most of the other classes. However, there are some cases where you will need to instantiate another class by yourself, to use it with custom settings. For example, you may need to format a date with a fixed format in english for including in an e-mail header, as it is the only format accepted there.

Unlike the other kits in Haiku, the Locale kit does not live in libbe. When building a localized application, you have to link it to liblocale.so. If you want to use the catalog macros, you also have to link each of your images (that is, applications, libraries and add-ons) to liblocalestub.a.