(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PECL intl >= 1.0.0)
Normalizer::normalize -- normalizer_normalize — Normalizes the input provided and returns the normalized string
Object oriented style
$input
[, string $form = Normalizer::FORM_C
] )Procedural style
$input
[, string $form = Normalizer::FORM_C
] )Normalizes the input provided and returns the normalized string
input
The input string to normalize
form
One of the normalization forms.
The normalized string or NULL if an error occurred.
Example #1 normalizer_normalize() example
<?php
$char_A_ring = "\xC3\x85"; // 'LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE' (U+00C5)
$char_combining_ring_above = "\xCC\x8A"; // 'COMBINING RING ABOVE' (U+030A)
$char_1 = normalizer_normalize( $char_A_ring, Normalizer::FORM_C );
$char_2 = normalizer_normalize( 'A' . $char_combining_ring_above, Normalizer::FORM_C );
echo urlencode($char_1);
echo ' ';
echo urlencode($char_2);
?>
Example #2 OO example
<?php
$char_A_ring = "\xC3\x85"; // 'LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE' (U+00C5)
$char_combining_ring_above = "\xCC\x8A"; // 'COMBINING RING ABOVE' (U+030A)
$char_1 = Normalizer::normalize( $char_A_ring, Normalizer::FORM_C );
$char_2 = Normalizer::normalize( 'A' . $char_combining_ring_above, Normalizer::FORM_C );
echo urlencode($char_1);
echo ' ';
echo urlencode($char_2);
?>
The above example will output:
%C3%85 %C3%85