ucwords and french accented lettres encoding
diacritics, encoding, php, utf-8
Solution
Try `mb_*` string functions for multibyte characters.
echo mb_convert_case(mb_strtolower($str), MB_CASE_TITLE, "UTF-8");
Problem
We have a database of Canadian addresses all in CAPS , the client requested that we transform to lower case expect the first letter and the letter after a '-' So i made this function , but I'm having problem with french accented letters . When having the file and charset as ISO-88591 It works fine , but when i try to make it UTF-8 it doesn't work anymore . Example of input : 'damien-claude élanger' output : Damien-Claude élanger the é in utf-8 will become � ``` function cap_letter($string) { $lower = str_split("àáâçèéêë"); $caps = str_split("ÀÁÂÇÈÉÊË"); $letters = str_split(strtolower($string)); foreach($letters as $code => $letter) { if($letter === '-' || $letter === ' ') { $position = array_search($letters[$code+1],$lower); if($position !== false) { // test echo $letters[$code+1] . ' == ' . $caps[$position] ; $letters[$code+1] = $caps[$position]; } else { $letters[$code+1] = mb_strtoupper($letters[$code+1]); } } } //return ucwords(implode($letters)) ; return implode($letters) ; } ``` The Other solution i have in mind is to do : ucwords(strtolower($str)) since all the addresses are already in caps so the É will stay É even after applying strtolower . But then I'll have the problem of having É inside ex : XXXÉXXÉ