Apache C++ Standard Library User's Guide

## 23.4 Summary

In this section, we discussed a variety of issues involved in developing software for worldwide use. For all of these areas in which cultural conventions differ from one region to another, the C++ Standard Library provides services that enable you to easily internationalize your C++ programs. These services include:

- Formatting and parsing of numbers, currency units, dates, and times

- Handling different alphabets, their character classification, and collation sequences

- Converting codesets, including multibyte to wide character conversion

- Handling messages in different languages.