Wednesday April 16, 2008

UTF-8 in LAMP

• Posted by Rob (#1) on April 16, 2008 11:50 CEST

Here's a handy function returning an array of UTF-8 characters associated to a simple ASCII character. Can be useful when offering users an interface to browse by first character (0-9, A-Z) while actual data retrieval should obviously also include entries starting with a special character.

For example, browsableUtf8Characters("e") returns an array containing e. è, é, ê and ë which can easily be joined and then used in SQL like-queries.

Download browsableUtf8Characters.php or view the source first. (License: none really, enjoy!)

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