How to sort an array of UTF-8 strings?

Question

I currentyl have no clue on how to sort an array which contains UTF-8 encoded strings in PHP. The array comes from a LDAP server so sorting via a database (would be no probl

Answer 1

Your collation needs to match the character set. Since your data is UTF-8 encoded, you should use a UTF-8 collation. It could be named differently on different platforms, but a good guess would be de_DE.utf8.

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