Dep wrote:
> mm> Smarty doesn't know that your string is "absolutely 100% correct
> mm> written English". and probably will never know.
>
> Sure, I understand that. But in such case it would be not a bad thing
> to at least include a note in SMARTY documentation, regarding that one
> particular case

+1. Contractions ending in n't and 's are extremely common in English,
and they're definitely not word boundaries. So at least the English
documentation should note this.

Daniel Hedrick wrote:
> I don't care which you fix, but it most certainly *is* a difference
> in behavior from the expectation.

I agree that it's a bug, but Smarty is Open Source, remember, so perhaps
*you* can fix it yourself and then fill us in on what you did. My quick
solution is to modify [smarty]/libs/plugins/modifier.capitalize.php.
The _ char is not seen as a word boundary by PCRE, so here's a modified
version of smarty_modifier_capitalize() that uses a quick str_replace to
circumvent the n't and 's problem for those of us using Smarty with
English text. Using a preg_replace to avoid the word-initial 's would
be more elegant, but str_replace is much faster than preg_replace, so
this works pretty well, or at least better than default behavior.
modifier.capitalize.php:
function smarty_modifier_capitalize($string, $uc_digits = false)
{
//replace common contraction endings with placeholders
//that PCRE will not see as a word boundary
$apos = array('n\'t ','\'s ','\'re ');
$tmps = array('n__apos__t ','__apos__s ','__apos__re ');
$string = str_replace($apos,$tmps,$string);
//do the real work
smarty_modifier_capitalize_ucfirst(null, $uc_digits);
$string = preg_replace_callback('!\b\w+\b!',
'smarty_modifier_capitalize_ucfirst', $string);
//restore the contractions and return
return str_replace($tmps,$apos,$string);
}

example.tpl:
{assign value="max's horse didn't fall. 'someone' is coming. they're
here!" var="capt"}
{$capt|capitalize}

Output:
Max's Horse Didn't Fall. 'Someone' Is Coming. They're Here!

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