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Florian
Florian

Reputation: 3171

Sort array with Icelandic locale

I have a list of Icelandic names that I need to sort, e.g. 

["Árni", "Anna", "Birkir"]

The correct icelandic order would have Á between A and B.

If I try to sort via Collator, I get an error message that the fallback was used (= Icelandic is not installed? [How] can I install additional languages for that?)

If I however try to sort via strnatcmp after setlocale(LC_COLLATE, 'is_IS'), it returns Á between Y and Þ (which is wrong).

How can I get correctly sorted Icelandic names without programming it myself?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 86

Answers (1)

jspit
jspit

Reputation: 7693

You can use the Collator class (if available).

$arr = ["Árni", "Anna", "Birkir"];
$collator = new Collator('is_IS');
$collator->sort($arr);
var_dump($arr);

Output:

array(3) { [0]=> string(4) "Anna" [1]=> string(5) "Árni" [2]=> string(6) "Birkir" }

With var_dump(class_exists('Collator', false)); you can check if the class is available.

Upvotes: 1

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