Xbasic

international_days_of_week Function

Syntax

C Result = international_days_of_week([C options ])

Arguments

C Result =

Days of the week, one per line

options

(optional) Comma-delimited list of parameter-value expressions, such as: language=cultureCode, short, shortest, start-dayName

Description

Returns day of week, using current culture settings

Example

? international_days_of_week()
= Sunday
Monday
...
 
? international_days_of_week("start-monday,shortest")
= Mo
Tu
...
 
' german
? international_days_of_week("language=de")
= Sonntag
Montag
..

The months and days returned are in UTF8 , so when dealing with the Web applications, you can take the output as is. However, when working from a desktop application (which assumes ACP) , you will need to call convert_utf8_to_acp()

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