How can I sort an array of UTF-8 strings in PHP?

Question

need help with sorting words by utf-8. For example, we have 5 cities from Belgium.

$array = array(\'Borgloon\',\'Thuin\',\'Lennik\',\'Éghezée\',\'Aubel\');
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Answer 1

There are great answers here, but this is a dead simple solution for most situations.

function globalsort($array, $in = 'UTF-8', $out = 'ASCII//TRANSLIT//IGNORE')
{
    return usort($array, function ($a, $b) use ($in, $out) {
        $a = @iconv($in, $out, $a);
        $b = @iconv($in, $out, $b);
        return strnatcasecmp($a, $b);
    });
}

And use it like so:

globalsort($array);