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timwhitlock/php-unicode
=======================

Unicode utilities

1.0(11y ago)318MITPHPPHP >=5.3.0

Since Nov 22Pushed 7y ago1 watchersCompare

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NO LONGER MAINTAINED
====================

[](#no-longer-maintained)

PHP 7 now has native Unicode support.

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php-unicode
===========

[](#php-unicode)

Utilities for working with Unicode characters in PHP.

The following prints a multi-byte tick mark from the code point [U+2714](http://apps.timwhitlock.info/unicode/inspect/hex/2714).

```
   require('u.php');
   header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf8', true );
   echo u('\u2714');
```

For further documentation, see the tests.

###  Health Score

26

—

LowBetter than 41% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity10

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity58

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

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

4241d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/160589?v=4)[Tim Whitlock](/maintainers/timwhitlock)[@timwhitlock](https://github.com/timwhitlock)

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Top Contributors

[![timwhitlock](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/160589?v=4)](https://github.com/timwhitlock "timwhitlock (1 commits)")

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Tags

utf8stringunicode

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