1/*! 2\page locale_intro Introduction to the Locale Kiit 3 4The Locale Kit provides a set of tools for internationalizing, localizing and 5translating your software. This includes not only replacing string with their 6translations at runtime, but also more complex tasks such as formating numbers, 7dates, and times in a way that match the locale preferences of the user. 8 9The main way to access locale data is through the be_locale_roster. This is a 10global instance of the BLocaleRoster class, storing the data for localizing an 11application according to the user's preferred settings. The locale roster also 12acts as a factory to instanciate most of the other classes. However, there are 13some cases where you will need to instanciate another class by yourself, to 14use it with custom settings. For example, you may need to format a date with 15a fixed format in english for including in an e-mail header, as it is the only 16format accepted there. 17 18Unlike the other kits in Haiku, the Locale kit does not live in libbe. When 19building a localized application, you have to link it to liblocale.so. If you 20want to use the catalog macros, you also have to link each of your images 21(that is, applications, libraries and add-ons) to liblocalestub.a. 22 23*/ 24