$str = "グッドバイピカソ";
..
Parse error: parse error, unexpected $ in
You probably use an multibyte encoding that use a value from 00h to 7fh
(in a compounded byte) that represents a single character.
I guess it's a charset/encoding problem. A safe charset is the
UTF-8 encoding of Unicode, because value from 00h to 7fh arent used
in any compouned byte.
Check the php manual about mbstrings [1] and iconv [2],
where you'll found workaround and other information
Excerpt:
"These are examples of character encodings that are unlikely
to work with PHP : JIS, SJIS, ISO-2022-JP, BIG-5"
[1] LXIV. Multibyte String Functions
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mbstring.php
[2] XLVIII. iconv Functions
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.iconv.php