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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Escape Characters on various shells Post 302254490 by methyl on Tuesday 4th of November 2008 02:12:00 PM
Old 11-04-2008
You can use /usr/bin/echo regardless of shell. See "man echo". This cuts the variations down.
The syntax is not portable for every unix variant.
Previous solution with "printf" is good.
 

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LOCALE_GET_DISPLAY_VARIANT(3)						 1					     LOCALE_GET_DISPLAY_VARIANT(3)

Locale::getDisplayVariant - Returns an appropriately localized display name for variants of the input locale

	Object oriented style

SYNOPSIS
publicstatic string Locale::getDisplayVariant (string $locale, [string $in_locale]) DESCRIPTION
Procedural style string locale_get_display_variant (string $locale, [string $in_locale]) Returns an appropriately localized display name for variants of the input locale. If is NULL then the default locale is used. PARAMETERS
o $locale - The locale to return a display variant for o $in_locale - Optional format locale to use to display the variant name RETURN VALUES
Display name of the variant for the $locale in the format appropriate for $in_locale. EXAMPLES
Example #1 locale_get_display_variant(3) example <?php echo locale_get_display_variant('sl-Latn-IT-nedis', 'en'); echo "; "; echo locale_get_display_variant('sl-Latn-IT-nedis', 'fr'); echo "; "; echo locale_get_display_variant('sl-Latn-IT-nedis', 'de'); ?> Example #2 OO example <?php echo Locale::getDisplayVariant('sl-Latn-IT-nedis', 'en'); echo "; "; echo Locale::getDisplayVariant('sl-Latn-IT-nedis', 'fr'); echo "; "; echo Locale::getDisplayVariant('sl-Latn-IT-nedis', 'de'); ?> The above example will output: Natisone dialect; dialecte de Natisone; NEDIS SEE ALSO
locale_get_display_name(3), locale_get_display_language(3), locale_get_display_script(3), locale_get_display_region(3). PHP Documentation Group LOCALE_GET_DISPLAY_VARIANT(3)
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