PHP Sorts Uppercase characters before lowercase characters

Question

I'm using PHP and having problems with different sorting functions, such as sort and usort. Here is an example.

$taulu[] = "Ahola";
$taulu[] = "AL-mara";
$taulu[] = "Aalto";
$taulu[] = "A. Pek";

sort($taulu);

foreach ($taulu as $rivi)
{
  echo "$rivi<br />";
}

This will print:

A. Pek
AL-mara
Aalto
Ahola

I want it to be this way:

A. Pek
Aalto
Ahola
AL-mara

How could that be possible?

Update

$taulu[] = "Ahola";
$taulu[] = "AL-mara";
$taulu[] = "Aalto";
$taulu[] = "A. Pek";
$taulu[] = "AaltoNen";
$taulu[] = "Aalto nen";

sort($taulu, SORT_NATURAL | SORT_FLAG_CASE);

print_r($taulu);

On https://3v4l.org/sZdfa the output on the section "Output for hhvm-3.10.1 - 3.19.0, 7.0.0 - 7.2.0alpha2" is incorrect, but on the section "Output for 5.4.0 - 5.6.30" the output is 100% correct. When using PHP 5.6.23 on https://eval.in, the code works fine. Anyway, on my server with PHP 5.6.30 this does not work.

So, why does this not work in all cases?

Answer 1

Use SORT_NATURAL | SORT_FLAG_CASE, then it will sort by the characters (regardless of the case)

$taulu[] = "Ahola";
$taulu[] = "AL-mara";
$taulu[] = "Aalto";
$taulu[] = "A. Pek";
sort($taulu, SORT_NATURAL | SORT_FLAG_CASE);
print_r($taulu);

Demo: https://eval.in/823308