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+<?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;
+	}
+}