On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:34:20 +0700
"Peter Lauri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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.

The last byte of a UTF-8 character does not have bit 8 set whereas all
preceeding bytes do.

Mike

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