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i18n Guidelines
Use Leatherman logging, locale, i18n support.
Use http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_56_0/libs/locale/doc/html/collation.html for sorting.
Document uses of Boost.Locale: sorting, multiple pluralization, masculine/feminine, casing, splitting strings (by words, separators, white-space).
Translate individual strings or smaller.
What do we use utfcpp for?
TODO: update Facter fact output sorting to use locale. Custom facts can introduce any character and need to be sorted correctly.
@MikaelSmith or @ahenroid: today's lunch-and-learn reminded me. Are our i18n best practices for c++ ready to be captured here?
@kylog, yes, as far as I'm aware, C++ i18n best practices have been demonstrated by the cpp-project-template, but really not documented here or anywhere else internally. I'm happy to take a first pass at this, unless @MikaelSmith, you have this written down elsewhere and/or have lots of detail in your head that you want to get down first.
And I'm thinking specifically of string externalization. There is already some info around UTF-8.