Collation implementation

[Martin v. Loewis]

> How about a third idea of using the excellent ICU 
> http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu/
> to do this?

Isn't that also a C++ library, with the problem that it does not honor
the system information on locales?

There are a number of libraries libstdc++ could use if it wanted to
provide its own locale database - that is not hard to do. The tricky
part is to make the system's C library and the C++ library agree on
locale settings and information.

Regards,
Martin