whello.cpp

Basic example of using various functions with wide strings provided by this library

//
//  Copyright (c) 2009-2011 Artyom Beilis (Tonkikh)
//
//  Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See
//  accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
//  http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
//
#include <boost/locale.hpp>
#include <iostream>

#include <ctime>

int main()
{
    using namespace boost::locale;
    using namespace std;
    
    // Create system default locale
    generator gen;
    locale loc=gen(""); 
    locale::global(loc);
    wcout.imbue(loc);
    
    // This is needed to prevent C library to
    // convert strings to narrow 
    // instead of C++ on some platforms
    std::ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false);

    
    wcout <<wformat(L"Today {1,date} at {1,time} we had run our first localization example") % time(0) 
          <<endl;
   
    wcout<<L"This is how we show numbers in this locale "<<as::number << 103.34 <<endl; 
    wcout<<L"This is how we show currency in this locale "<<as::currency << 103.34 <<endl; 
    wcout<<L"This is typical date in the locale "<<as::date << std::time(0) <<endl;
    wcout<<L"This is typical time in the locale "<<as::time << std::time(0) <<endl;
    wcout<<L"This is upper case "<<to_upper(L"Hello World!")<<endl;
    wcout<<L"This is lower case "<<to_lower(L"Hello World!")<<endl;
    wcout<<L"This is title case "<<to_title(L"Hello World!")<<endl;
    wcout<<L"This is fold case "<<fold_case(L"Hello World!")<<endl;
   
}


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