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+Internationalisation (i18npool) framework ensures that the suite is adaptable to the requirements of different
+native languages, their local settings and customs, etc without source code modification. (Wow, that is such marketing-speak...)
+
+Specifically for locale data documentation please see i18npool/source/localedata/data/locale.dtd
+
+See also [http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Category:I18n]
+
+On iOS we put the largest data generated here, the dict_ja and dict_zh
+stuff, into separate files and not into code to keep the size of an
+app binary down. Temporary test code:
+
+    static bool beenhere = false;
+    if (!beenhere) {
+        beenhere = true;
+        uno::Reference< uno::XComponentContext > xComponentContext(::cppu::defaultBootstrap_InitialComponentContext());
+        uno::Reference< lang::XMultiComponentFactory > xMultiComponentFactoryClient( xComponentContext->getServiceManager() );
+        uno::Reference< uno::XInterface > xInterface =
+            xMultiComponentFactoryClient->createInstanceWithContext( "com.sun.star.i18n.BreakIterator_ja", xComponentContext );
+    }