<?php

/**
* @package utf8
*/

//---------------------------------------------------------------
/**
* 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
*/
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;
    }
}