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.