symfony/string

Provides an object-oriented API to strings and deals with bytes, UTF-8 code points and grapheme clusters in a unified way

v8.1.2 2026-07-28 07:35 UTC

Requires

• php: >=8.4.1
• symfony/polyfill-ctype: ^1.8
• symfony/polyfill-intl-grapheme: ^1.33
• symfony/polyfill-intl-normalizer: ^1.0
• symfony/polyfill-mbstring: ^1.0

Requires (Dev)

• symfony/emoji: ^7.4|^8.0
• symfony/http-client: ^7.4|^8.0
• symfony/intl: ^7.4|^8.0
• symfony/translation-contracts: ^2.5|^3.0
• symfony/var-exporter: ^7.4|^8.0

Conflicts

• symfony/translation-contracts: <2.5

MIT

• Nicolas Grekas
• Symfony Community

• i18n
• utf8
• utf-8
• string
• unicode
• grapheme

Published on Packagist.org on 2026-07-29 11:57 UTC

README

The String component provides an object-oriented API to strings and deals with bytes, UTF-8 code points and grapheme clusters in a unified way.

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