// // Copyright (c) 2009-2011 Artyom Beilis (Tonkikh) // Copyright (c) 2023 Alexander Grund // // Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. // https://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt #include #include #include int main() { if(boost::locale::localization_backend_manager::global().get_all_backends().at(0) != "icu") std::cout << "Need ICU support for this example!\nConversion below will likely be wrong!\n"; // Create system default locale boost::locale::generator gen; std::locale loc = gen(""); std::locale::global(loc); std::cout.imbue(loc); // This is needed to prevent the C stdio library from // converting strings to narrow on some platforms std::ios_base::sync_with_stdio(false); std::cout << "Correct case conversion can't be done by simple, character by character conversion\n"; std::cout << "because case conversion is context sensitive and not a 1-to-1 conversion.\n"; std::cout << "For example:\n"; const std::string gruessen("grüßen"); std::cout << " German " << gruessen << " would be incorrectly converted to " << boost::to_upper_copy(gruessen); std::cout << ", while Boost.Locale converts it to " << boost::locale::to_upper(gruessen) << std::endl << " where ß is replaced with SS.\n"; const std::string greek("ὈΔΥΣΣΕΎΣ"); std::cout << " Greek " << greek << " would be incorrectly converted to " << boost::to_lower_copy(greek); std::cout << ", while Boost.Locale correctly converts it to " << boost::locale::to_lower(greek) << std::endl << " where Σ is converted to σ or to ς, according to position in the word.\n"; std::cout << "Such type of conversion just can't be done using std::toupper/boost::to_upper* that work on character " "by character base.\n" "Also std::toupper is not fully applicable when working with variable character length like UTF-8 or UTF-16\n" "limiting the correct behavior to BMP or ASCII only\n"; } // boostinspect:noascii