Introduction

We will start this chapter with two recipes that take advantage of a new Unicode escape syntax introduced with PHP 7. After that, we will cover how to determine a web visitor's locale from browser data. The next few recipes will cover the creation of a locale class, which will allow you to represent numbers, currency, dates, and time in a format specific to a locale. Finally, we will cover recipes that demonstrate how to generate an internationalized calendar, handle recurring events, and perform translation without having to use gettext.