note 118484 added to function.strlen

I want to share something seriously important for newbies or beginners of PHP who plays with strings of UTF8 encoded characters or the languages like: Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Dari, Chinese (simplified), Chinese (traditional), Japanese, Vietnamese, Urdu, Macedonian, Lithuanian, and etc. As the manual says: "strlen() returns the number of bytes rather than the number of characters in a string.", so if you want to get the number of characters in a string of UTF8 so use mb_strlen() instead of strlen(). Example: <?php // the Arabic (Hello) string below is: 59 bytes and 32 characters $utf8 = "السلام علیکم ورحمة الله وبرکاته!"; var_export( strlen($utf8) ); // 59 echo "<br>"; var_export( mb_strlen($utf8, 'utf8') ); // 32 ?> ---- Server IP: 72.52.91.14 Probable Submitter: 175.106.44.235 ---- Manual Page -- http://php.net/manual/en/function.strlen.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/118484 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/118484/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/118484/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/118484/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/118484/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/118484/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/118484/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/118484 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/118484 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php