PHP IntlChar()
PHP 7 supports internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) through the intl extension. This extension is just a basic wrapper for the ICU library and provides similar methods and features to the ICU library.
PHP 7 exposes the Unicode character features in ICU through the new IntlChar class. This class itself defines many static methods for operating unicode characters from multiple character sets.
Example
Example
<?php printf('%x', IntlChar::CODEPOINT_MAX); echo IntlChar::charName('@'); var_dump(IntlChar::ispunct('!')); ?>
The execution output of the above program is:
10ffff
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