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