note 68839 added to function.mb-strlen

I have been working with some funny html characters lately and due to the nightmare in manipulating them between mysql and php, I got the database column set to utf8, then store characters with html enity "ọ" as ọ in the database and set the encoding on php as "utf8". This is where mb_strlen became more useful than strlen. While strlen('ọ') gives result as 3, mb_strlen('ọ','UTF-8') gives 1 as expected. But left(column1,1) in mysql still gives wrong char for a multibyte string. In the example above, I had to do left(column1,3) to get the correct string from mysql. I am now about to investigate multibyte manipulation in mysql. ---- Server IP: 66.207.199.35 Probable Submitter: 24.89.226.75 ---- X-Spam-Status: Yes, hits=7.4 required=5.0 tests=DATE_MISSING,FROM_NO_LOWER, HEAD_ILLEGAL_CHARS autolearn=no version=2.64 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mb-strlen.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/68839 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/68839/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/68839/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/68839/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/68839/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/68839/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/68839/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/68839 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/68839 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php