note 96234 deleted from function.unserialize by danbrown

Note Submitter: jeanbaptiste dot verrey at gmail dot com ---- @skinnepa at hotmail dot com he's implementation is the ONLY ONE that worked for me, I had my MySQL in utf-8 (table and connection) but when I was saving russian serialized characters into a text field nothing was working! thank you^^ function mb_unserialize($serial_str) { $out = preg_replace('!s:(\d+):"(.*?)";!se', "'s:'.strlen('$2').':\"$2\";'", $serial_str ); return unserialize($out); }