Normalizes the input provided and returns the normalized string

Normalizer::normalize

normalizer_normalize

(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PECL intl >= 1.0.0)

Normalizer::normalize -- normalizer_normalize — Normalizes the input provided and returns the normalized string

Description

Object oriented style

static string Normalizer::normalize ( string $input [, string $form = Normalizer::FORM_C ] )

Procedural style

string normalizer_normalize ( string $input [, string $form = Normalizer::FORM_C ] )

Normalizes the input provided and returns the normalized string

Parameters

input: The input string to normalize
form: One of the normalization forms.

Return Values

The normalized string or NULL if an error occurred.

Examples

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: