note 45407 modified in function.strlen by thiago
| From: | thiago@php.net | Date: | Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:16:29 +0000 |
| Subject: | note 45407 modified in function.strlen by thiago | ||
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The easiest way to determine the character count of a UTF8 string is to pass the text through
utf8_decode() first:
<?php
$length = strlen(utf8_decode($s));
?>
utf8_decode() converts characters that are not in ISO-8859-1 to '?', which, for the
purpose of counting, is quite alright.
--was--
The easiest way to determine the character count of a UTF8 string is to pass the text through
utf8_decode() first:
$length = strlen(utf8_decode($s));
utf8_decode() converts characters that are not in ISO-8859-1 to '?', which, for the
purpose of counting, is quite alright.
http://php.net/manual/en/function.strlen.php