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Proper surname capitalization in PHP

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Name caps in programming

I noticed that people who register on my site are extremely lazy in that they don’t even document their own names.

My site is business-oriented, so there is no “freedom of expression” argument here.

Capitalization of the name is quite simple, since I can not imagine a single instance where the western name would not start with a capital letter. I could be wrong.

But the capital last name becomes more complex, with names like

O'Brien
O´Flaherty
de Wit
McKenzie
Auditore da Firenze
de los Remedios de Escalada
Virta-Jokela

What would be a good solution for the correct automatic capitalization of last names in PHP, which would get the right solution in 95% of cases? I know that .

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: , . , foo bar foo bar.

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  • de los Remedios

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$name = ucwords(strtolower($name));

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, de los Remedios de Escalada ? de los Remedios de Escalada. , .

- "" Last word ucword()

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