mb_lcfirst

(PHP 8 >= 8.4.0)

mb_lcfirst — Make a string's first character lowercase

function mb_lcfirst(string $string, ?string $encoding = null): string

Performs a multi-byte safe lcfirst() operation, and returns a string with the first character of string lowercased.

string: The input string.
encoding: The encoding parameter is the character encoding. If it is omitted or null, the internal character encoding value will be used.

Returns the resulting string.