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/*!
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\page locale_intro Introduction to the Locale Kiit
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The Locale Kit provides a set of tools for internationalizing, localizing and
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translating your software. This includes not only replacing string with their
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translations at runtime, but also more complex tasks such as formating numbers,
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dates, and times in a way that match the locale preferences of the user.
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The main way to access locale data is through the be_locale_roster. This is a
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global instance of the BLocaleRoster class, storing the data for localizing an
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application according to the user's preferred settings. The locale roster also
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acts as a factory to instanciate most of the other classes. However, there are
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some cases where you will need to instanciate another class by yourself, to
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use it with custom settings. For example, you may need to format a date with
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a fixed format in english for including in an e-mail header, as it is the only
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format accepted there.
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Unlike the other kits in Haiku, the Locale kit does not live in libbe. When
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building a localized application, you have to link it to liblocale.so. If you
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want to use the catalog macros, you also have to link each of your images
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(that is, applications, libraries and add-ons) to liblocalestub.a.
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*/
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