note 108700 modified in function.ucfirst by danbrown

In case you need a French version of ucfirst:

"été indien" => "Eté indien"
"ça va?" => "Ça va?"

<?php
function frenchUcfirst($v) {
 $lowCase = "\\xE0\\xE1\\xE2\\xE3\\xE4\\xE5\\xE7\\xE8\\xE9\\xEA\\xEB\\xEC\\xED\\xEE\\xEF";
 $lowCase .= "\\xF1\\xF2\\xF3\\xF4\\xF5\\xF6\\xF8\\xF9\\xFA\\xFB\\xFC\\xFD\\xFF\\u0161";
 $upperCase = "AAAAAA\\xC7EEEEIIIINOOOOOOUUUUYYS";
 return strtoupper(strtr(substr($v, 0, 1), $lowCase, $upperCase)) . substr($v, 1);
}
?>

Note:
- Latin non french accented characters follow the same rule:
"ändå" => "Andå"
- Non ASCII characters in the function are in HEX format to avoid encoding issue... --was-- In case you need a French version of ucfirst: "été indien" => "Eté indien" "ça va?" => "Ça va?" function frenchUcfirst($v) { $lowCase = "\xE0\xE1\xE2\xE3\xE4\xE5\xE7\xE8\xE9\xEA\xEB\xEC\xED\xEE\xEF"; $lowCase .= "\xF1\xF2\xF3\xF4\xF5\xF6\xF8\xF9\xFA\xFB\xFC\xFD\xFF\u0161"; $upperCase = "AAAAAA\xC7EEEEIIIINOOOOOOUUUUYYS"; return strtoupper(strtr(substr($v, 0, 1), $lowCase, $upperCase)) . substr($v, 1); } Note: - Latin non french accented characters follow the same rule: "ändå" => "Andå" - Non ASCII characters in the function are in HEX format to avoid encoding issue... http://php.net/manual/en/function.ucfirst.php