On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:59:55 -0400 David Krings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi! > > Being a ucfirst issue, I want to capitalize the first letter in a > string. What caught my attention is this sentence in the PHP > documentation: "Note that 'alphabetic' is determined by the current > locale. For instance, in the default "C" locale characters such as > umlaut-a (ä) will not be converted." > > Well, that is what potentially might happen. Is there a less language > discriminatory version of ucfirst or do I need to snip off the first > character and check it against ä,ö, and ü to make them Ä, Ö, and Ü? That > will take care of German, but what about other languages? > > The locale of my system is US-English, but the script could run on other > locales as well. Is there any way to switch the locale on the fly? Even > if, I'd neet to noodle the string through ucfirst through all quite a > bunch of locales. By default programs (and thus PHP scripts) run in the C locale. If you call setlocale(LC_CTYPE, ""); this will switch to the locale specified in the environment usually throught the LANG variable. So you can test this by running your script like: $ LANG=de_DE.UTF-8 ./myscript.php > This is "bupid" how my 2 year old would put it. Much of PHP is derived from the the C language standards. Because C is a machine language abstraction, it is deliberately coarse about things that different systems may or may not support (e.g. i18n). This is contrary to the top-down method of designing more modern and user friendly scripting languages but it provides somewhat of a guarantee that there will be no holes in the API since C is the common denominator of programming languages. Mike -- Michael B Allen PHP Active Directory Kerberos SSO http://www.ioplex.com/ _______________________________________________ New York PHP Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk NYPHPCon 2006 Presentations Online http://www.nyphpcon.com Show Your Participation in New York PHP http://www.nyphp.org/show_participation.php
