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+/* Copyright Bryan W Berry, 2009, 
+ * under the MIT license http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
+ * 
+ * this library is heavily influenced by the GNU LIBC library
+ *  http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Locales.html
+ */
+
+(function($){
+
+     $.i18n = function(string, locale){
+	 var lang = locale || $.i18n.lang;
+	 if (!this.i18n[lang] || !this.i18n[lang].strings){
+	     return string;
+	 }
+	 return this.i18n[lang].strings[string]||string;
+     };
+
+     $._ = $.i18n;
+
+     $.i18n.setLocale = function (locale){
+	 $.i18n.lang = locale;
+     };
+
+     $.i18n.getLocale = function (){
+	 return $.i18n.lang;
+     };
+
+
+     /**
+      * Converts a number to numerals in the specified locale. Currently only
+      * supports devanagari numerals for Indic languages like Nepali and Hindi
+      * @param {Number} Number to be converted
+      * @param {locale} locale that number should be converted to
+      * @returns {String} Unicode string for localized numeral 
+      */
+     $.i18n._n = function(num, locale){
+
+	 locale = locale || $.i18n.lang;
+
+	 if (!this.i18n[locale] || !this.i18n[locale].numBase ){
+	     return num;
+	 }
+
+
+	 //48 is the base for western numerals
+	 var numBase = $.i18n[$.i18n.lang].numeralBase || 48;
+	 var prefix =  $.i18n[$.i18n.lang].numeralPrefix || "u00";
+     
+	 var convertDigit = function(digit){	     
+	     return '\\' + prefix + 
+		 (numBase + parseInt(digit)).toString(16);
+	 };
+	 
+	 var charArray = num.toString().split("").map(convertDigit);
+	 return eval('"' + charArray.join('') + '"');
+     };
+
+     $._n = $.i18n._n;
+
+     /* ToDo
+      * implement sprintf
+      * conversion functions for monetary and numeric 
+      * sorting functions (collation) for different locales
+      */
+
+ })(jQuery);
+
+