zigazou/french-typography

Apply french typography to an HTML string

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0.0.5 2025-01-31 10:32 UTC

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GPL-3.0-or-later 9eea185534156fafbd1dc1f004eeefee93433a33

  • Frédéric BISSON <zigazou.woop@protonmail.com>

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Last update: 2025-04-25 11:27:44 UTC

README

FrenchTypography is a PHP module that automatically applies French typography rules to HTML code in UTF-8. This module improves the presentation and readability of texts by respecting the typographic standards in force in France.

Usage

<?php
require('vendor/autoload.php');

use Zigazou\FrenchTypography\Correcteur;

// This will return: Bonjour le monde « monde » !
$a = Correcteur::corriger('Bonjour le "monde"!');

// This will return: <div class="d">Bonjour le monde « monde » !</div>
$b = Correcteur::corriger('<div class="d">Bonjour le "monde"!</div>', TRUE);

Features

  • Addition of non-breaking thin spaces before double punctuation marks (: ; ? !)
  • Convert English double quotes (" ") into French guillemets (« »)
  • Adjustment of spaces in units of measurement
  • Restore accents on uppercased first letters (Ecole → École)
  • Corrects multiple consecutive exclamation/question mark
  • Simple quotes are replaced with typographic quote
  • <->, -> and <- are replaced with ↔, → and ←
  • <=>, => and <= are replaced with ⇔, ⇒ and ⇐
  • (c) and (C) are replaced with ©
  • (r) and (R) are replaced with ®
  • french phone numbers are formatted (0999999999 → 09 99 99 99 99)
  • number followed by units will be separated by a no-break space
  • Corrects missing œ ligatures (oeil → œil)
  • Consecutive spaces are reduced to one space
  • Leading and trailing spaces are trimmed

Installation

To install FrenchTypography, you can use Composer:

composer require zigazou/french-typography