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The International Components for Unicode(ICU) is a C and C++ library that
provides robust and full-featured Unicode support on a wide variety of
platforms. The library provides:

- Calendar support
- Character set conversions
- Collation (language-sensitive)
- Date & time formatting
- Locales (140+ supported)
- Message catalogs (resources) 
- Message formatting 
- Normalization 
- Number & currency formatting
- Time zones
- Transliteration
- Word, line & sentence breaks