Peter Lauri wrote: > Hi group, > > I want to limit the number of characters that are shown in a script. The > characters happen to be Thai, and the page is encoded in UTF-8. Everything > works, except when I want to cut the text (just take start of string). > > I do: > > echo substr($thaistring, 0, 30); > > The beginning of the string works fine, but the last character does mostly > "break". How can I determine the start and end of a character.
become familiar with (and install) the mb_string extension > > I hope the problem is clear enough, is it? :) > > Best regards, > Peter Lauri > > www.lauri.se - personal web site > www.dwsasia.com - company web site > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
