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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting With that logic this echoes "echo". Question about echo! Post 302470995 by Scrutinizer on Thursday 11th of November 2010 05:02:58 PM
Old 11-11-2010
That is because backticks have to be escaped if you nest them:
Code:
echo `echo \`echo \` `

You do not need to with the more modern $(..) command substitution construct:
Code:
 echo $(echo $(echo))

 

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LOCALE_GET_DISPLAY_NAME(3)						 1						LOCALE_GET_DISPLAY_NAME(3)

Locale::getDisplayName - Returns an appropriately localized display name for the input locale

	Object oriented style

SYNOPSIS
publicstatic string Locale::getDisplayName (string $locale, [string $in_locale]) DESCRIPTION
Procedural style string locale_get_display_name (string $locale, [string $in_locale]) Returns an appropriately localized display name for the input locale. If is NULL then the default locale is used. PARAMETERS
o $locale - The locale to return a display name for. o $in_locale -optional format locale RETURN VALUES
Display name of the locale in the format appropriate for $in_locale. EXAMPLES
Example #1 locale_get_display_name(3) example <?php echo locale_get_display_name('sl-Latn-IT-nedis', 'en'); echo "; "; echo locale_get_display_name('sl-Latn-IT-nedis', 'fr'); echo "; "; echo locale_get_display_name('sl-Latn-IT-nedis', 'de'); ?> Example #2 OO example <?php echo Locale::getDisplayName('sl-Latn-IT-nedis', 'en'); echo "; "; echo Locale::getDisplayName('sl-Latn-IT-nedis', 'fr'); echo "; "; echo Locale::getDisplayName('sl-Latn-IT-nedis', 'de'); ?> The above example will output: Slovenian (Latin, Italy, Natisone dialect); slovxc3xa8ne (latin, Italie, dialecte de Natisone; Slowenisch (Lateinisch, Italien, NEDIS) SEE ALSO
locale_get_display_language(3), locale_get_display_script(3), locale_get_display_region(3), locale_get_display_variant(3). PHP Documentation Group LOCALE_GET_DISPLAY_NAME(3)
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