problem with strtolower()

Anon

Hi to all in this forum!
I have problems with setting the type of a variable. From a web-form I post the variable to my php file and want to make all the letters lower case. But when I print the variable the letters aren't lower case. I have tried my best but...nothing. Here is the code I use:

<?php
$fname=strval($fname);
$fname=strtolower($fname);
print ("$fname");?>

I use strval() because to be sure $name is a string.

Why is this weird behaviour. Where is my fault?
Thank you in advance!

Anon

Frankly, I do not think that your code is the problem. I've written various variations and they all work.

$fname="Dmitriy";
$fname=strtolower(strval($fname));
print("$fname");

above example works great

$fname="Dmitriy";
echo strtolower(strval($fname));

this example works also

I don't think that it's the code. However keep in mind I am using PHP 4.0.6. You might be using different version - may be that could be the case...

Anon

Thank you for answering! But I forgot to mention that I use cyrillic font. There must be some kind of "translation" but I dont know how to do it! The problem still exists :-(

Anon

O.K. that makes sense.

The solution I guess is to get Unicode table and look up codes associated with russkiy alphabet. And then you could write your own strtolower() function.

Anon

I have already found an answer! I use strtr() function!
Thank's!