对包含法语和英语字符串的数组进行排序

Question

The problem I am having is that when I call sort() on my array of strings, it alphabetizes it fine, except for french strings.

It will sort it like so:

Atlantic Inc.
Bait Inc.
Zack's Fish Mart
Émile Fisheries Inc.

What can I do to sort both languages appropriately?

Answer 1

The sorting rules are highly dependent on the locale. You can force a locale using the SORT_LOCALE_STRING flag:

setlocale("LC_ALL", "fr_FR.utf8"); 
sort($arraytobesorted, SORT_LOCALE_STRING);

http://php.net/manual/en/function.sort.php