Talk:International Components for Unicode
October 2006
I've just expanded the article a little and made some corrections. I used 2 sources not referenced in the article:
At one stage, IBM sold a C++ kit called the "Taligent Internationalization Library". I don't know if this came from CommonPoint, or was an early name for ICU4C.
Perhaps the article should mention a major design difference between ICU and C locales? In ICU, locales are just labels that a program can use to load an appropriate formatter, date converter, string bundle, etc. In C, locales carry all the locale-specific information with them, so one setlocale() call can change all locale-related settings.