Phalcon is written in C as an extension for PHP. There is a PECL extension that offers internationalization functions to PHP applications called intl. Starting from PHP 5.4/5.5 this extension is bundled with PHP. Its documentation can be found in the pages of the official PHP manual.
Phalcon does not offer this functionality, since creating such a component would be replicating existing code.
In the examples below, we will show you how to implement the intl extension’s functionality into Phalco