Comments on: Hot PHP UTF-8 tips http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/08/10/hot-php-utf-8-tips/ News, opinion, and fresh thinking for web developers and designers. The official podcast of sitepoint.com. Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:23:27 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/08/10/hot-php-utf-8-tips/comment-page-1/#comment-915090 Anonymous Sun, 12 Apr 2009 14:57:22 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=1676#comment-915090 <strong></strong><em><blockquote><code></code></blockquote></em>

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]]> By: Rin http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/08/10/hot-php-utf-8-tips/comment-page-1/#comment-853428 Rin Tue, 23 Dec 2008 21:42:54 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=1676#comment-853428 A package of PHP functions to manipulate strings encoded in a UTF-8 encoding. The powerful solution/contribution for UTF-8 support in your CMF/CMS, written on PHP. http://forum.dklab.ru/viewtopic.php?p=91015 A package of PHP functions to manipulate strings encoded in a UTF-8 encoding. The powerful solution/contribution for UTF-8 support in your CMF/CMS, written on PHP.
http://forum.dklab.ru/viewtopic.php?p=91015

]]> By: erkekjetter http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/08/10/hot-php-utf-8-tips/comment-page-1/#comment-733195 erkekjetter Mon, 26 May 2008 14:04:30 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=1676#comment-733195 You can find a extended unicode upper/lower case mapping table at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/systems/index.jsp?topic=/nls/rbagsuppertolowermaptable.htm Might be useful for someone, it certainly was for me. You can find a extended unicode upper/lower case mapping table at
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/systems/index.jsp?topic=/nls/rbagsuppertolowermaptable.htm
Might be useful for someone, it certainly was for me.

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]]> By: MarekG http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/08/10/hot-php-utf-8-tips/comment-page-1/#comment-45050 MarekG Fri, 11 Aug 2006 22:16:13 +0000 http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/?p=1676#comment-45050 It is not clear to me why MediaWiki uses for converting case this code: <code>function uc ( $str, $first = false )</code> // in file LanguageUtf8.php, mediawiki-1.7.1.tar.gz ... <code>return preg_replace( "/$x([a-z]|[\\xc0-\\xff][\\x80-\\xbf]*)/e", "strtr( \"\$1\" , \$wikiUpperChars )", $str ); </code> See their lookup table, they have also "a-z=>A-Z" arrays there: http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/includes/Utf8Case.php This has to be slow. Why it should not be enough just: <blockquote><code>if (!$first) return strtr ($str, $wikiUpperChars); // ?</code></blockquote> It is not clear to me why MediaWiki uses for converting case this code:

function uc ( $str, $first = false ) // in file LanguageUtf8.php, mediawiki-1.7.1.tar.gz
…
return preg_replace( "/$x([a-z]|[\\xc0-\\xff][\\x80-\\xbf]*)/e", "strtr( \"\$1\" , \$wikiUpperChars )", $str );

See their lookup table, they have also “a-z=>A-Z” arrays there:
http://svn.wikimedia.org/viewvc/mediawiki/trunk/phase3/includes/Utf8Case.php

This has to be slow.

Why it should not be enough just:

if (!$first) return strtr ($str, $wikiUpperChars); // ?
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