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PHP: ucwords() for UTF-8 strings
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<?php
if (!function_exists('mb_ucwords'))
{
function mb_ucwords($str)
{
return mb_convert_case($str, MB_CASE_TITLE, "UTF-8");
}
}
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Thanks, it helps me solve the problem of ucwords with Vietnamese UTF-8 strings

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francescom commented Nov 7, 2022 •
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You have to mb_strtolower, before.

<?php

if (!function_exists('mb_ucwords'))
{
	function mb_ucwords($str,$encoding='UTF-8')
	{
		return mb_convert_case(mb_strtolower($str, $encoding), MB_CASE_TITLE, $encoding);
	}
}

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