Normalizes the input provided and returns the normalized string
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    Normalizer::normalize

    normalizer_normalize

    (PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PHP 7, PHP 8, PECL intl >= 1.0.0)

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

    Description

    Object-oriented style

    public static Normalizer::normalize(string $string, int $form = Normalizer::FORM_C): string|false

    Procedural style

    normalizer_normalize(string $string, int $form = Normalizer::FORM_C): string|false

    Normalizes the input provided and returns the normalized string

    Parameters

    string

    The input string to normalize

    form

    One of the normalization forms.

    Return Values

    The normalized string or false 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:

    %C3%85 %C3%85

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