sorting - laravel 5.3 collection sort UTF8 strings -

folks, want sort following nested collection by string alphabeticaly:

$collection = collect([     ["name"=>"maroon"],     ["name"=>"zoo"],     ["name"=>"ábel"],     ["name"=>"élof"] ])->sortby("name"); 

i expect:

1=> "ábel" 2=> "élof" 3=> "maroon" 4=> "zoo" 

i got instead:

1=> "maroon" 2=> "zoo" 3=> "ábel" 4=> "élof" 

i seen php threads this, curious if there laravel workaround this. thanks.

here's solid way it:

$blank = array(); $collection = collect([     ["name"=>"maroon"],     ["name"=>"zoo"],     ["name"=>"ábel"],     ["name"=>"élof"] ])->toarray();  $count = count($collection);  ($x=0; $x < $count; $x++) {      $blank[$x] = $collection[$x]['name']; }  $collator = collator_create('en_us'); var_export($blank); collator_sort( $collator, $blank ); var_export( $blank );  dd($blank); 

outputs:

array (   0 => 'maroon',   1 => 'zoo',   2 => 'ábel',   3 => 'élof', )array (   0 => 'ábel',   1 => 'élof',   2 => 'maroon',   3 => 'zoo', ) 

laravel pretty output:

array:4 [   0 => "ábel"   1 => "élof"   2 => "maroon"   3 => "zoo" ] 

for personal reading , reference: http://php.net/manual/en/class.collator.php

hope answer helps, sorry late response =)