Locales — example
Comparing strings:
compare("côte", "coté") < 0) {
echo "less\n";
} else {
echo "greater\n";
}
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Ignore case and accents:
setStrength(Collator::PRIMARY);
if ($coll->compare("côte", "cOTé") == 0) {
echo "same\n";
} else {
echo "different\n";
}
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