Be careful with htmlentities ...
<?
echo mb_strtoupper("L'éléphant", "utf-8");
?>
output : L'&EACUTE;LÉPHANT
mb_strtoupper
(PHP 4 >= 4.3.0, PHP 5)
mb_strtoupper — Make a string uppercase
Descripción
Returns str with all alphabetic characters converted to uppercase.
Lista de parámetros
- str
-
The string being uppercased.
- encoding
-
The encoding parameter is the character encoding. If it is omitted, the internal character encoding value will be used.
Valores retornados
str with all alphabetic characters converted to uppercase.
Unicode
For more information about the Unicode properties, please see » http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr21/.
By contrast to strtoupper(), 'alphabetic' is determined by the Unicode character properties. Thus the behaviour of this function is not affected by locale settings and it can convert any characters that have 'alphabetic' property, such as a-umlaut (ä).
Ejemplos
Example #1 mb_strtoupper() example
<?php
$str = "Mary Had A Little Lamb and She LOVED It So";
$str = mb_strtoupper($str);
echo $str; // Prints MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB AND SHE LOVED IT SO
?>
mb_strtoupper
25-Feb-2005 10:40
