TwitterCLDR is an “ICU level”[1] internationalization library for Ruby that supports dates, times, numbers, currencies, world languages, sorting, text normalization, time spans, plurals, and unicode code point data (CLDR)
TwitterCLDR provides a way to use the same CLDR data that the ICU library uses, but in a Ruby environment.
Hence, formatting dates, times, numbers, currencies and plurals should now be much easier for the typical Rubyist.
TwitterCLDR includes a pure Ruby, from-scratch implementation of the Unicode Collation Algorithm (with tailoring) that enables locale-aware sorting capabilities.
TwitterCLDR has methods like this
TwitterCldr::Normalization.normalize("français") # "français"
"Alphabetize a list using regular Ruby sort:"