Re: strrev() for persian language!

shahrzad khorrami wrote:

hi all, for reversing of characters, strrev() is good. but for persian characters it doesn't work! Thanks

How nice of you to let us know! Now, is there a question in here somewhere? or is that all you wanted to say? -- _assuming_ you want to know why this is: Persian characters are represented using > 1 byte per character. strrev() assumes exactly 1 byte per character, and just reverses the "string" of bytes. Which results in a reversed string. (some) Persian characters are represented using 2 (or more?) bytes; just reversing those will lead to an entirely different chracter (or comination thereof). _assuming_ you want to know how to get around this: Use a function which handles these cases properly. One that is encoding-aware (and doesn't just assume a 1-byte charset). You can either use a combination of iconv_* functions to do this, or use a combination of mb_* functions. Something like this should work: function iconv_strrev($string, $encoding) { $return = ''; $len = iconv_strlen($string, $encoding); for($i=($len-1);$i >= 0;$i--) {

      $return .= iconv_substr($string, $i, 1, $encoding);

} return $return; }