(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PHP 7, PHP 8, PECL intl >= 1.0.0)
Normalizer::normalize -- normalizer_normalize — Normalizes the input provided and returns the normalized string
Object-oriented style
public static Normalizer::normalize(string $string, int $form = Normalizer::FORM_C): string|false
Procedural style
normalizer_normalize(string $string, int $form = Normalizer::FORM_C): string|false
Normalizes the input provided and returns the normalized string
stringThe input string to normalize
formOne of the normalization forms.
The normalized string or false 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
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