Re: PHP, mbstring, UTF-8 and indexing strings

delsvr wrote: > Just a simple question (with a simple answer, hopefully): how can I access > character x of a utf-8 encoded string? i.e. how would I get this to work: > > for($x=0; $x < strlen($utf8); $x++) > echo "character {$x}:" . $utf8{$x}; > > Keep in mind that I have strlen overloaded by mbstring, and this is > necessary for my purposes because I need to do work on each character. Also, > by "character" I mean, for example: "我". substr() should do it. I don't think you can loop through a multibyte string in the way you want. $l = strlen($utf8); for($x=0; $x < $l; $x++) echo "char {$x}:".substr($utf8, $x, 1); check here to figure out exactly which functions you are currently overloading: http://php.net/mb_string > > Thanks, > delsvr