upper case in name with accents

Question

{capture assign=last_name}{contact.last_name}{/capture}{$last_name|upper}

I'm trying to render my contact name in uppercases with Smarty and include letters with accents.

At the bottom of this page in the the Smarty doc: https://www.smarty.net/docs/en/language.modifier.upper.tpl It is advised to use {$your_variable|@strtoupper} but {capture assign=last_name}{contact.last_name}{/capture}{$last_name|@strtoupper} doesn't work

Answer 1

You probably want mb_strtoupper. Smarty's |upper just does strtoupper - you can see this if you look in packages/smarty/plugins/modifier.upper.php.

So one way is to hack modifier.upper.php and change it to use mb_strtoupper. You can also try using {$last_name|@mb_strtoupper} but it might give you a security error.

Answer 2

As Demerit pointed in this comment: https://civicrm.stackexchange.com/a/39969/104

|crmupper is the expected modifier to be used. Internally it ends up using the mb_stroupper function.