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cline/babel
===========

Unicode-aware string encoding, conversion, and analysis library for PHP

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---

Unicode-aware string encoding, conversion, and analysis for PHP with a fluent API. Features script detection, directionality analysis, character analysis, and intelligent transliteration.

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

> **Requires [PHP 8.2+](https://php.net/releases/)** with `ext-intl`, `ext-mbstring`, and `ext-iconv`

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

```
composer require cline/babel
```

Documentation
-------------

[](#documentation)

- **[Getting Started](https://docs.cline.sh/babel/getting-started/)** - Installation and basic usage
- **[Conversion](https://docs.cline.sh/babel/conversion/)** - Encoding conversion methods
- **[Script Detection](https://docs.cline.sh/babel/script-detection/)** - Detect scripts and character sets
- **[Directionality](https://docs.cline.sh/babel/directionality/)** - RTL/LTR detection
- **[Character Analysis](https://docs.cline.sh/babel/character-analysis/)** - Analyze string contents
- **[Normalization](https://docs.cline.sh/babel/normalization/)** - Clean and normalize strings

Quick Examples
--------------

[](#quick-examples)

```
use Cline\Babel\Babel;

// Convert to ASCII with transliteration
Babel::from('Żółć')->toAscii();           // "Zolc"
Babel::from('北京')->toAscii();            // "bei jing"
Babel::from('Привет')->toAscii();          // "Privet"

// Detect scripts
Babel::from('Hello 世界')->containsChinese();   // true
Babel::from('Привет мир')->containsCyrillic();  // true
Babel::from('مرحبا')->isRtl();                  // true

// Clean strings
Babel::from("Hello\x00World")->removeNonPrintable()->value();  // "HelloWorld"
Babel::from('Hello 👋')->removeEmoji()->value();                // "Hello "

// Create slugs
Babel::from('Héllo Wörld!')->toSlug();  // "hello-world"
```

Change log
----------

[](#change-log)

Please see [CHANGELOG](CHANGELOG.md) for more information on what has changed recently.

Contributing
------------

[](#contributing)

Please see [CONTRIBUTING](CONTRIBUTING.md) and [CODE\_OF\_CONDUCT](CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) for details.

Security
--------

[](#security)

If you discover any security related issues, please use the [GitHub security reporting form](https://github.com/faustbrian/babel/security) rather than the issue queue.

Credits
-------

[](#credits)

- [Brian Faust](https://github.com/faustbrian)
- [All Contributors](../../contributors)

License
-------

[](#license)

The MIT License. Please see [License File](LICENSE.md) for more information.

###  Health Score

44

—

FairBetter than 92% of packages

Maintenance88

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity20

Limited adoption so far

Community6

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity51

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~16 days

Recently: every ~3 days

Total

7

Last Release

61d ago

Major Versions

1.0.0 → 2.0.02026-03-04

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/22145591?v=4)[Brian Faust](/maintainers/faustbrian)[@faustbrian](https://github.com/faustbrian)

---

Top Contributors

[![faustbrian](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/22145591?v=4)](https://github.com/faustbrian "faustbrian (11 commits)")

---

Tags

phpi18nutf8stringunicodeencodingasciitransliteration

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