The Patchwork\Utf8 class implements the quasi complete set of string functions
that need UTF-8 grapheme clusters awareness:
strlen, substr, strpos, stripos, strrpos, strripos, strstr, stristr, strrchr, strrichr, strtolower, strtoupper, htmlentities, htmlspecialchars, wordwrap, chr, count_chars, ltrim, ord, rtrim, trim, html_entity_decode, get_html_translation_table, str_ireplace, str_pad, str_shuffle, str_split, str_word_count, strcmp, strnatcmp, strcasecmp, strnatcasecmp, strncasecmp, strncmp, strcspn, strpbrk, strrev, strspn, strtr, substr_compare, substr_count, substr_replace, ucfirst, lcfirst, ucwords. Missing are printf-family functions and number_format.
Some more functions are also provided to help handling UTF-8 strings:
- isUtf8(): checks if a string contains well formed UTF-8
- toASCII(): generic UTF-8 to ASCII transliteration
- bestFit(): UTF-8 to Code Page conversion using best fit mappings
- strtocasefold(): unicode transformation for caseless matching
- strtonatfold(): generic case sensitive transformation for collation matching
- getGraphemeClusters(): splits a string to an array of grapheme clusters
These functions are all static methods of the Patchwork\Utf8 class. The best
way to use them is to add a use Patchwork\Utf8 as u; at the beginning of your
files, then when UTF-8 awareness is required, prefix by u:: when calling them:
echo strlen("déjà"); may become echo u::strlen("déjà"); eg.
Patchwork\Utf8 relies on the mbstring, iconv and intl PHP extensions.
When one or all of these extensions are missing, partial PHP fallback implementations are provided:
mbstring: mb_convert_encoding, mb_decode_mimeheader, mb_encode_mimeheader, mb_convert_case, mb_internal_encoding, mb_list_encodings, mb_strlen, mb_strpos, mb_strrpos, mb_strtolower, mb_strtoupper, mb_substitute_character, mb_substr, mb_stripos, mb_stristr, mb_strrchr, mb_strrichr, mb_strripos, mb_strstr.iconv: iconv, iconv_mime_decode, iconv_mime_decode_headers, iconv_get_encoding, iconv_set_encoding, iconv_mime_encode, ob_iconv_handler, iconv_strlen, iconv_strpos, iconv_strrpos, iconv_substr.intl: Normalizer, grapheme_extract, grapheme_stripos, grapheme_stristr, grapheme_strlen, grapheme_strpos, grapheme_strripos, grapheme_strrpos, grapheme_strstr, grapheme_substr.
Fallback implementations for utf8_encode and utf8_decode are also provided,
enhanced to Windows-1252 instead of ISO-8859-1.
Including the bootup.utf8.php file is the easiest way to enable these features
and configure PHP for a UTF-8 aware application.
This code is extracted from the Patchwork framework. It is released here standalone in the hope that it can be used in a different context successfully!