Re: truncate a mb-string to a given octet length?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but should varchar 255 with a utf8 character set mean 255 unicode characters, not octets? On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Tom Worster <fsb@thefsb.org> wrote: > say a table in the db has a varchar(255) column, 255 being the max number > of > octets of strings that can go in the column. now say the php script very > occasionally has to deal with utf8 input strings with octet length > 255 -- > it needs to select rows matching the input string or insert the input > string. > > so what i think i need is a function to truncate a utf8 string to the > longest valid utf8 string that has octet length <= 255. > > is this what mb_strcut() is for? i'm having a hard time understanding the > man page for that function. > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >