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+//
+//  Copyright (c) 2009-2011 Artyom Beilis (Tonkikh)
+//
+//  Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. (See
+//  accompanying file LICENSE_1_0.txt or copy at
+//  http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt)
+//
+#include <boost/locale.hpp>
+#include <boost/algorithm/string/case_conv.hpp>
+#include <iostream>
+
+#include <ctime>
+
+
+
+int main()
+{
+    using namespace boost::locale;
+    using namespace std;
+    // Create system default locale
+    generator gen;
+    locale loc=gen(""); 
+    locale::global(loc); 
+    cout.imbue(loc);
+
+    
+    cout<<"Correct case conversion can't be done by simple, character by character conversion"<<endl;
+    cout<<"because case conversion is context sensitive and not 1-to-1 conversion"<<endl;
+    cout<<"For example:"<<endl;
+    cout<<"   German grüßen correctly converted to "<<to_upper("grüßen")<<", instead of incorrect "
+                    <<boost::to_upper_copy(std::string("grüßen"))<<endl;
+    cout<<"     where ß is replaced with SS"<<endl;
+    cout<<"   Greek ὈΔΥΣΣΕΎΣ is correctly converted to "<<to_lower("ὈΔΥΣΣΕΎΣ")<<", instead of incorrect "
+                    <<boost::to_lower_copy(std::string("ὈΔΥΣΣΕΎΣ"))<<endl;
+    cout<<"     where Σ is converted to σ or to ς, according to position in the word"<<endl;
+    cout<<"Such type of conversion just can't be done using std::toupper that work on character base, also std::toupper is "<<endl;
+    cout<<"not even applicable when working with variable character length like in UTF-8 or UTF-16 limiting the correct "<<endl;
+    cout<<"behavior to unicode subset BMP or ASCII only"<<endl;
+   
+}
+
+// vim: tabstop=4 expandtab shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4
+
+// boostinspect:noascii