Re: problem with strtolower()

David Orn Johannsson wrote:

I'm having a problem with StrToLower function in php I'm trying to convert characters like Þ and acute letters from uppercase to lowercase, but it dosen't work. this is what the manual says: "Note that 'alphabetic' is determined by the current locale. This means that in i.e. the default "C" locale, characters such as umlaut-A (Ä) will not be converted." dose this mean that it dosen't return acute and other letters like that or is it a matter of configuration on the server?

Well, here is the actual loop which does the lowering for you:

        for (i=0; i<len; i++) {
                ch = tolower((unsigned char)*c);
                *c++ = ch;
        }
        return (s);

It is using the std c-function tolower() man tolower tells me NAME

       toupper, tolower - convert letter to upper or lower case

RETURN VALUE The value returned is that of the converted letter, or c if the conversion was not possible. So I take it all weird characters are just left alone and returned to you, as is.