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+PHP is a programming language designed to be embedded into web pages.
+
+This module is an internationalization extension, enabling PHP programmers
+to perform UCA-conformant collation and date/time/number/currency formatting
+in their scripts.
+
+It tends to closely follow ICU APIs, so that people having experience
+working with ICU in either C/C++ or Java could easily use the PHP
+API. Also, this way ICU documentation would be useful to understand
+various ICU functions.
+
+Intl consists of several modules, each of them exposes the corresponding ICU
+API:
+    * Collator: provides string comparison capability with support
+      for appropriate locale-sensitive sort orderings.
+    * Number Formatter: allows to display number according to the
+      localized format or given pattern or set of rules, and to parse
+      strings into numbers.
+    * Message Formatter: allows to create messages incorporating
+      data (such as numbers or dates) formatted according to given
+      pattern and locale rules, and parse messages extracting data
+      from them.
+    * Normalizer: provides a function to transform text into one
+      of the Unicode normalization forms, and provides a routine to
+      test if a given string is already normalized.
+    * Locale: provides interaction with locale identifiers in the
+      form of functions to get subtags from locale identifier; parse,
+      compose, match(lookup and filter) locale identifiers.