mb_strtolower
Note:
mb_strtoupper('ÿ') returns '?'
mb_strtoupper
(PHP 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5)
mb_strtoupper — Make a string uppercase
Description
string mb_strtoupper
( string $str
[, string $encoding
] )
Returns str with all alphabetic characters converted to uppercase.
Parameters
- str
-
The string being uppercased.
- encoding
-
The encoding parameter is the character encoding. If it is omitted, the internal character encoding value will be used.
Return Values
str with all alphabetic characters converted to uppercase.
Unicode
For more information about the Unicode properties, please see » http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr21/.
By contrast to strtoupper(), 'alphabetic' is determined by the Unicode character properties. Thus the behaviour of this function is not affected by locale settings and it can convert any characters that have 'alphabetic' property, such as a-umlaut (ä).
Examples
Example #1 mb_strtoupper() example
<?php
$str = "Mary Had A Little Lamb and She LOVED It So";
$str = mb_strtoupper($str);
echo $str; // Prints MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB AND SHE LOVED IT SO
?>
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User Contributed Notesmb_strtoupper
cyril dot legret at free dot no-spam dot fr
26-Feb-2005 05:40
26-Feb-2005 05:40
Be careful with htmlentities ...
<?
echo mb_strtoupper("L'éléphant", "utf-8");
?>
output : L'&EACUTE;LÉPHANT