8x faster ucfirst() (function called >100 times even on simple pageviews :)

diff --git a/languages/Language.php b/languages/Language.php
index 338c348..a2d313f 100644 (file)
--- a/languages/Language.php
+++ b/languages/Language.php
@@ -931,7 +931,8 @@ class Language {
        }
 
        function ucfirst( $str ) {
-               return self::uc( $str, true );
+               if ( ord($str[0]) < 128 ) return ucfirst($str);
+               else return self::uc($str,true); // fall back to more complex logic in case of multibyte strings
        }
 
        function uc( $str, $first = false ) {