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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
+
+WWW: http://oss.software.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/icu/project/index.html