+<?php
+/**
+* @version $Id: ucfirst.php,v 1.1 2006/02/25 13:50:17 harryf Exp $
+* @package utf8
+* @subpackage strings
+*/
+
+//---------------------------------------------------------------
+/**
+* UTF-8 aware alternative to ucfirst
+* Make a string's first character uppercase
+* Note: requires utf8_strtoupper
+* @param string
+* @return string with first character as upper case (if applicable)
+* @see http://www.php.net/ucfirst
+* @see utf8_strtoupper
+* @package utf8
+* @subpackage strings
+*/
+function utf8_ucfirst($str){
+ switch ( utf8_strlen($str) ) {
+ case 0:
+ return '';
+ break;
+ case 1:
+ return utf8_strtoupper($str);
+ break;
+ default:
+ preg_match('/^(.{1})(.*)$/us', $str, $matches);
+ return utf8_strtoupper($matches[1]).$matches[2];
+ break;
+ }
+}
+