How To Get Array Of Alphabet Letters For A Given Language

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
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Is it possible within Yii (or php even) given a language to get all the characters of that language’s alphabet back? Pseudo code would be something like:




Yii::app()->language = 'en-US';

Yii::app()->language->returnAlphabetAsArray(); // returns ['A', 'B', 'C', 'D', ... 'Z']


Yii::app()->language = 'ru-RU';

Yii::app()->language->returnAlphabetAsArray(); // returns ['A', 'Б', 'В', 'Г' .... 'Я']

This needs to work for any given number of languages, so actually entering them into a database or array by hand isn’t really feasible. I’ve been surprised before by what is built into Yii so hopefully this is hidden somewhere.

2

What do you intend to use the array for? There may be a more appropriate function available.

3

An alphabet pager. Needs to work for multiple languages… Russian, Japanese, etc.